nowhence
English edit
Etymology edit
Unattested as Middle English *nowhennes, but ultimately from Old English nāhwanon. It may be reconstructed by analogy to nowhither from Middle English nowhider, from Old English nāhwider. Analyzable as no + whence.
Adverb edit
nowhence (not comparable)
- From no place; from nowhere.
- 1868, George MacDonald, The Seaboard Parish, serialized in The Sunday Magazine, June 1, page 538
- They come nowhence, and they go nowhither. But now I see them and all things as ever moving symbols of the motions of man's spirit and destiny.
- 1868, George MacDonald, The Seaboard Parish, serialized in The Sunday Magazine, June 1, page 538