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Word of the Day for Saturday, December 14, 2013

whitherward \HWITH-er-werd, WITH-\, adverb:

Archaic. toward what place; in what direction.

West, West! Whitherward point hope and prophet- fingers, whitherward at sunset kneel all worshipers of fire, whitherward in mid-ocean the great whales turn to die, whitherward face all the Moslem dead in Persia, whitherward lie Heaven and Hell!
-- Herman Melville, Mardi: And Voyage Thither, 1849

...the only question now was, Whitherward to vanish, in what hole to hide oneself!
-- Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution, 1837

Whitherward comes from Old English hwinder + -weard meaning "toward where?"

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