"nowhence" meaning in English

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      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "*nowhennes"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English *nowhennes",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "nāhwanon"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English nāhwanon",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "nowhither"
      },
      "expansion": "nowhither",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "nowhider"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English nowhider",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "nāhwider"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English nāhwider",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "no",
        "3": "whence"
      },
      "expansion": "no + whence",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "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.",
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      "expansion": "nowhence (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adv"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
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          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1868, George MacDonald, The Seaboard Parish, serialized in The Sunday Magazine, June 1, page 538",
          "text": "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."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "From no place; from nowhere."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "nowhere",
          "nowhere"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "nowhence"
}

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        "2": "ine-pro",
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    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "*nowhennes"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English *nowhennes",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "nāhwanon"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English nāhwanon",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "nowhither"
      },
      "expansion": "nowhither",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "nowhider"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English nowhider",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "nāhwider"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English nāhwider",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "no",
        "3": "whence"
      },
      "expansion": "no + whence",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "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.",
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      "args": {
        "1": "-"
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      "expansion": "nowhence (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adv"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
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        "English terms derived from Middle English",
        "English terms derived from Old English",
        "English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
        "English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *kʷ-",
        "English terms inherited from Middle English",
        "English terms inherited from Old English",
        "English uncomparable adverbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1868, George MacDonald, The Seaboard Parish, serialized in The Sunday Magazine, June 1, page 538",
          "text": "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."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "From no place; from nowhere."
      ],
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        [
          "nowhere",
          "nowhere"
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