nowhence

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English

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Etymology

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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

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nowhence (not comparable)

  1. 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.