Whitherward

Word of the Day for Sunday 15th December 2013

Whitherward \ HWITH-er-werd, WITH-\, adverb :

Archaic. toward what place, in what direction.

West, West! Whitherward point fav prophet-fingers, whitherward to kneel at sunset worshippers of fire, whitherward in mid-ocean the great whales turn to die, whitherward face to the Moslem dead in Persia, whitherward lie Heaven and Hell! 
- Herman Melville, Mardi: And Voyage Thither , 1849

... The only question now was, Whitherward to vanish, in what hole to hide oneself! 
- Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution , 1837

Whitherward comes from Old Inglese hwinder + -weard meaning "toward where?"

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