adv
Freq #1050504
Meanings
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adv
from whatever place or source; from wherever
Good advice, whencesoever it comes, should be judged on its merits.
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Etymology
Formed from whence + so + ever. Whence already means 'from where,' while the emphatic compound extends it to any possible place or source. The word is now archaic or literary, and from wherever is the usual modern equivalent.