no where

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Adverb[edit]

no where (not comparable)

  1. Obsolete form of nowhere.
    • 1708, [John Dunton], editor, The Second Volume of The Phenix: Or, A Revival of Scarce and Valuable Pieces No Where to be Found but in the Closets of the Curious. [], volume II, London: Printed for J[ohn] Morphew [], →OCLC:
      THE SECOND VOLUME OF The Phenix: OR, A REVIVAL OF Scarce and Valuable Pieces No where to be found but in the Cloſets of the Curious.
    • 1738, William Warburton, “Section III”, in The Divine Legation of Moses [], volume I, London: [] Fletcher Gyles, [], →OCLC, book III, page 359:
      Thus Epictetus, a thorough Stoic, if ever there was any, ſpeaking of Death, ſays, "But whither do you go? no where to hurt you: You return from whence you came: To a friendly Conſociation with your kindred Elements: What their was of the Nature of Fire in your Compoſition, returns to the Element of Fire; what their was of Earth, to Earth; what of Air, to Air; and of Water, to Water. There is neither Hell, Acheron, Cocytus, or Pyriphlegethon."
    • 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter VI, in Pride and Prejudice: [], volume I, London: [] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, [], →OCLC, page 49:
      [] to her he was only the man who made himself agreeable no where, and who had not thought her handsome enough to dance with.