Elsewhither

Pronunciation

• RP enPR: Ä•lsʹhwÄ­thÉ™, IPA: /ˈɛlsʍɪðə/

Origin

else + whither ("to which place”, “to what place")

“elsewhither, adv.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary 2

nd

1989

Full definition of elsewhither

Adverb

1. Somewhither else; to some other place; in some other direction.
• 1843, , , book 4, chapter VIII, The Didactic… know that ‘impossible,’ where Truth and Mercy and the everlasting Voice of Nature order, has no place in the brave man’s dictionary. That when all men have said “Impossible,” and tumbled noisily elsewhither, and thou alone art left, then first thy time and possibility have come.
• 1919, William Somerset Maugham, ,With Strickland the sexual appetite took a very small place. It was unimportant. It was irksome. His soul aimed elsewhither.

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