adv. [See ANY 9; not in early use; the earlier owhere, oughwhere, and aywhere, came down to 1485.] In any place. The indefinite compound of where. Formerly written separately.

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c. 1300.  Cursor M. (Gött.). 3975. If he miht him aniquar ta.

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c. 1450.  Song, in Reliq. Ant., II. 240. Tabberys gloson eny whare, And gode feyth comys all byhynde.

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1587.  Golding, De Mornay, xv. 234. How is it possible that they should be … from aniwhere els than from aboue?

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1673.  Ray, Jrny. thro’ Low Countries, 20. The best we have any where seen.

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1766.  Goldsm., Vic. Wakef., xiv. (1806), 70. You’ll do it at neighbour Jackson’s, or anywhere.

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1849.  Macaulay, Hist. Eng., II. 208. Anywhere except in the high streets of royal burghs.

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