somewhy
English
Adverb
somewhy (not comparable)
- For some reason
- 1864, Browning, Robert, “Mr. Sludge, "The Medium"”, in Wikisource, line 505, retrieved 2012-01-18:
- Out of the drift of facts, whereby you learn / What some was, somewhere, somewhen, somewhy?
- 1988,, Thomas P. Riggio, editor, Letters to Women: New Letters, Reprint edition, University of Illinois Press, published 2009, →ISBN, page 179:
- I loved them both—but not so very much else in the book—but I read them over twice & thought—somewhy—of Highland Park & our quaint little trips to Los Angles & elsewhere thereabouts on the street car.
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