whithersoever

英語

詞源

whither +‎ soever。

發音

• 韻部：-ɛvə(ɹ)

副詞

whithersoever (不可比)

1. (古舊) 到任何地方；无论何处

   近義詞： anywhither

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 8:19，列號 1:

     And a certaine Scribe came, and ſaid vnto him, Maſter, I will follow thee whitherſoeuer thou goeſt.

     有一個經文士前來對他說：「老師，無論你到哪裡去，我都要跟從你。」

   • 1749, Henry Fielding, “XII. Containing Love Letters, &c.”, 出自 The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, 卷 II, London: A[ndrew] Millar […], →OCLC, book VI，頁號 305:

     JONES was commanded to leave the Houſe immediately, and told, that his Clothes and every thing elſe ſhould be ſent to him whitherſoever he ſhould order them.

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   • 1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], 章號 XXXV, 出自 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC，頁號 270:

     […] whithersoever he turned, the bars and shackles of civilization shut him in and bound him hand and foot.

     […] 他无论走到哪里，文明都束缚着他的手脚。

   • 1887, H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure‎^[1]:

     [T]he flaming pillar slowly twisted and thundered off whithersoever it passes to in the bowels of the great earth, leaving Ayesha standing where it had been.

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   • 1926, H.P. Lovecraft, Weird Tales, 8, No.3, 373-80.

     But again I thought of the emptiness and horror of reality, and boldly prepared to follow whithersoever I might be led.