"somewhither" meaning in English

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Adverb

Etymology: From Middle English somwhether; equivalent to some + whither. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|somwhether}} Middle English somwhether, {{compound|en|some|whither}} some + whither Head templates: {{en-adv|-}} somewhither (not comparable)
  1. (archaic, literary) To some indeterminate place; to some place or other; to somewhere Tags: archaic, literary, not-comparable
    Sense id: en-somewhither-en-adv-~pYl9rlR Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

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          "text": "1884, Oliver Wendell Holmes, \"In our youths, our hearts were touched with fire\", Memorial Day speech, 30 May 1884, Keene, New Hampshire, USA, Speech delivered before John Sedgwick Post No. 4, Grand Army of the Republic\nAll that is required of you is that you should go somewhither as hard as ever you can."
        },
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          "ref": "1897, William Morris, “Chapter IV. Of the Slaying of Friend and Foe”, in The Water of the Wondrous Isles (Fantasy), Project Gutenberg, published 2005, page 157",
          "text": "So came they, three hours after noon, to where was a clearing in the woodland, and a long narrow plain some furlong over lay before them,[…], and the wood rose on the other side high and thick, so that the said plain looked even as a wide green highway leading from somewhence to somewhither.",
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          "ref": "1922, Katherine (Fullerton) Gerould, Lost Valley, a Novel, Harper, Pennsylvania State University, published 2010, page 437",
          "text": "The stirring of the wind was pleasantly ominous to Reilly: it was quickening, encouraging, hostile to inertia; it came somewhence and was going somewhither.",
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          "text": "So came they, three hours after noon, to where was a clearing in the woodland, and a long narrow plain some furlong over lay before them,[…], and the wood rose on the other side high and thick, so that the said plain looked even as a wide green highway leading from somewhence to somewhither.",
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