Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A contracted form of
whatsoever .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- pronoun A contraction of
whatsoever ; -- used in poetry.
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- adjective Archaic form of
whatsoever .
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Examples
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For whatsoe'er we perpetrate, we do but row; we are steered by fate, which in success often disinherits, for spurious causes, noblest merits.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, July 5, 1890 Various
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Judged that dying man with mercy, whatsoe'er he left undone!
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Faithfully to serve her,/and in all things whatsoe'er
The Nibelungenlied Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original George Henry Needler 1914
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Thee will he gladly marry,/an bring that whatsoe'er.
The Nibelungenlied Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original George Henry Needler 1914
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Yet whatsoe'er their wishes,/might none fulfilled be.
The Nibelungenlied Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original George Henry Needler 1914
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They know whither fate is driving them: Isolda has said as much to Brangaena: “she may end it ... whatsoe'er she make me, wheresoe'er take me, hers am I wholly, so let me obey her solely.”
Richard Wagner Runciman, John F 1913
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The mountaineer has never and will never understand what right the government of state or nation has to interfere with whatsoe'er he does on his own land with his own corn in his own still.
In Old Kentucky Edward Marshall 1901
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They know whither fate is driving them: Isolda has said as much to Brangaena: "she may end it ... whatsoe'er she make me, wheresoe'er take me, hers am I wholly, so let me obey her solely."
Richard Wagner Composer of Operas John F. Runciman 1891
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How strange the thought that, whatsoe'er we learn,
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But whatsoe'er befall me since that I have heard from our host, that good man, that my father in sooth rode that way I shall follow hard after, if so be that I may but cross over, and will but await tomorrow's dawn.
The Romance of Morien Jessie Laidlay Weston 1889
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