Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Toward what or which direction or place.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In what direction; toward what or which place.
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- adverb In what direction; toward what or which place.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Then spake the knight, La Cote Male Taile: Fair damosel, I will take the shield and that adventure upon me, so I wist I should know whitherward my journey might be; for because I was this day made knight I would take this adventure upon me.
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Persant, whitherward are ye way-leading this knight?
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We sought where we might serve Thee most usefully, and were together returning to Africa: whitherward being as far as Ostia, my mother departed this life.
The Confessions 1999
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All that I felt now was the sad tie of brotherhood which united us, poor human atoms, strong only in our capacity to suffer, tossed and driven, whitherward we knew not, in the purposeless play of soulless and unpitying forces.
Cecilia de Noël Lanoe Falconer
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Years rush by us like the wind, we see not whence the eddy comes, nor whitherward it is tending, and we seem ourselves to witness their flight without a sense that we are changed: and yet time is beguiling man of his strength, as the winds rob the trees of their foliage.
Leaves of Life For Daily Inspiration Margaret Bird Steinmetz
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I was weak enough, I admit, to be immensely delighted with the first which I experienced, -- not foreseeing whitherward they led.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866 Various
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We know now, after nearly a hundred years of trial, what that issue in the main is, and whitherward it still tends.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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Persant's pavilion, "Fair damsel," said Persant, "whitherward are ye away leading this knight?"
Stories of King Arthur and His Knights Retold from Malory's "Morte dArthur" U. Waldo Cutler
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We sought where we might serve Thee most usefully, and were together returning to Africa: whitherward being as far as Ostia, my mother departed this life.
The Ninth Book 1909
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Then spake the knight, La Cote Male Taile: Fair damosel, I will take the shield and that adventure upon me, so I wist I should know whitherward my journey might be; for because I was this day made knight I would take this adventure upon me.
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