Definition of "nowhither" [no•whith•er]

• In no definite direction. (adverb)

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• "Birdalone, we abode there but a little while to rest us from the boat, and went nowhither from the strand, and so went on our way in"
• "And I turned and looked down the slope; and surely all before me was utter wildness of a dark desolation; for it did seem to go nowhither but into an everlasting night."
• "And thus it was with millions of men that night — a flight nowhither, with limbs heavy with heat and breath fierce and scant, and the flood like a wall swift and white behind."