English Explanatory Dictionary

nowhence

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adv
  1. From no place; from nowhere.

Word forms

nowhence

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.

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