anywise

[ en-ee-wahyz ]

adverb

1. in any way or respect.

anywise

/ ˈɛnɪˌwaɪz /

adverb

1. in any way or manner; at all

Word History and Origins

Origin of anywise¹

before 1000; Middle English ani wise, Old English on ǣnige wīsan in any wise. See any, wise ²

Example Sentences

Nor, did Miss Havisham’s manner towards Estella in anywise change, except that I believed it to have something like fear infused among its former characteristics.

From Literature

“Well,” said Joe, meditatively, not, of course, that it could be in anywise necessary to consider about it, but because it was the way at the Jolly Bargemen to seem to consider deeply about everything that was discussed over pipes,—“well—no. No, he ain’t.”

From Literature

Even Douglass, however, ultimately reached a positive verdict on Lincoln’s public acts and private attitudes, calling him “one of the very few Americans, who could entertain a negro and converse with him without in anywise reminding him of the unpopularity of his color.”

From Washington Post

I then asked him what it was; he told me it was snow: but I could not in anywise understand him.

From Slate

But by this time he had ripped his ceiling-cloth down, and the grey incoming day was suddenly darkened again as he ploughed across the talus of debris and made a wall of cloth, fastening it anywise from beam to beam.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• haphazard
• headlong
• jumbled