adv., conj. Also poet. whence’er. Earlier as two words, whence ever. [See EVER adv. 8 e.] = prec.
1718. Prior, Solomon, II. 793. Whence ever I thy cruel Essence bring, I own thy Influence.
1888. Clough, Poems, Fragm. Myst. Fall, xii. A thing, whence’er it came, To be forgotten and considered not.
1899. Belloc, Danton, iv. 119. The enthusiasms which, from whencever they blow, are the fresh winds of the soul.
