somewhen
advEtymology From some + when.
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Nonstandard, Rare at some time; indefinitely; some time or other, sometime
- Out of the drift of facts, whereby you learn / What some was, somewhere, somewhen, somewhy?1864, Robert Browning, “Mr. Sludge, "The Medium"”, in Wikisource, line 505, retrieved 18 Jan 2012:
- Yes, though nobody else should reproach me if we should stay together, yet somewhen, years hence, ...1891, Thomas Hardy, chapter XXXVI, in Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman (Fiction):
3 more examples
- An event is a particular thing that happens somewhere and somewhen.2002, Marc Lange, “What Is Spatiotemporal Locality?”, in An Introduction to the Philosophy of Physics: Locality, Fields, Energy, and Mass (Science / Philosophy), Wiley-Blackwell, →ISBN, page 4:
- … things always exist or occur somewhen as well. They exist or occur whenever — at whatever times-when — they in fact exist or occur, and not somewhen else.2008, Michael F. Wagner, “Chapter One”, in The Enigmatic Reality of Time (Science / Physics), Brill, →ISBN, page 26:
- Somewhen, curling through the intricacies of tau, John/Johan still lived. Somewhen on this very planet he lived, …2009, Marta Randall, “Secret Rider”, in Robert Silverberg, editor, Trips in Time: Time Travel Tales (Collection of Short Stories) (SciFi), Wildside Press, →ISBN, page 120:
- Synonyms
- at some point, somewhere along the line
- Related terms
- elsewhen