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to whatever place; wherever, in an archaic or literary style
She resolved to follow the road whithersoever it might lead.
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Inherited from Middle English whidersoevere, formed from whither, 'to what place,' + soever, an emphatic element meaning 'any at all.' Once ordinary in formal and biblical prose, it is now archaic or deliberately literary.