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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