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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

otherwhence en · ADV

Etymology

From other + whence.

Meanings

  1. (archaic, formal, not-comparable) By other means; From otherwhere.
    • 'Twere a goodly boon If men could raise their children otherwhence And there should be no woman tribe at all; So would there be no mischief in the world. 1868, Augusta Webster, transl., The Medea of Euripides, pages 37–38, lines 571–574:

Relateds

anywhence · whenceforward · everywhence · whencever · whencesoever · whenceward · whenceforth · somewhence · whenceness · nowhence · elsewhence