nowhence en · ADV
Etymology
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.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) From no place; from nowhere.
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.
1868, George MacDonald, The Seaboard Parish, serialized in The Sunday Magazine, June 1, page 538