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(archaic, formal, poetic or literary) To what place. quotations
Jesus answered and said unto them, Though I bear record of myself, yet my record is true: for I know whence I came, and whither I go; but ye cannot tell whence I come, and whither I go.
1611, King James BibleWikisource, John 8:14
[W]hat greatly encouraged me, it was in an opposite direction from that whence the blind man had made his appearance and whither he had presumably returned.
1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Sea-chest”, in Treasure IslandWikisource
And with the same grave countenance he hurried through his breakfast and drove to the police station, whither the body had been carried.
1885, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, Penguin Red Classics, paperback edition, page 24
The wagon jolted on, carrying me I knew not whither.
1918, Willa Cather, My Antonia, Mirado Modern Classics, paperback edition, page 8
(informal, humorous) Into what future state; where next. quotations examples
Whither now the DUP?
2018, Tommie Gorman, RTE.ie, article headline
third-person singular simple present whithers, present participle whithering, simple past and past participle whithered
(intransitive, obsolete, dialectal) To wuther.