Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb From whatever place or source.
- conjunction From any place or source that.
from The Century Dictionary.
- From what place soever; from what cause or source soever.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb From what place soever; from what cause or source soever.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb archaic From
wherever : from whatever place.
Etymologies
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Examples
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I especially enjoyed the week of archaic conjunctions from late November: argal sobeit whencesoever albeit forwhy
Conjunction Junction 2008
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I especially enjoyed the week of archaic conjunctions from late November: argal sobeit whencesoever albeit forwhy
Archive 2008-12-01 2008
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Time was begun: so, Allah upon thee, whencesoever thou comest, go hide, lest any espy thee and tell my sister and she do thee and me die!
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Honoria: who, delighting in mischief, whencesoever it proceeded, presently added, “This cold is a judgment upon you for leaving me alone all this morning; but I suppose you chose a tête-à-tête with your favourite, without the intrusion of any third person.”
Cecilia 2008
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So that whencesoever we take the rule of moral actions; or by what standard soever we frame in our minds the ideas of virtues or vices, they consist only, and are made up of collections of simple ideas, which we originally received from sense or reflection: and their rectitude or obliquity consists in the agreement or disagreement with those patterns prescribed by some law.
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For it is truth alone I seek, and that will always be welcome to me, when or from whencesoever it comes.
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So that whencesoever we take the rule of moral actions; or by what standard soever we frame in our minds the ideas of virtues or vices, they consist only, and are made up of collections of simple ideas, which we originally received from sense or reflection: and their rectitude or obliquity consists in the agreement or disagreement with those patterns prescribed by some law.
God, Aids & Circumcision Hill, George 2005
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However it was made, and whencesoever the material or suggestion borrowed, he came by a very admirable instrument for the telling of stories.
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This change, accounted for only by those three words, explained no otherwise; this change - whencesoever springing, effected in a brief ten minutes - passed like no light summer cloud.
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Greek characters; the words being these: “O man, whosoever thou art, and from whencesoever thou comest (for I know thou wilt come), I am Cyrus, the founder of the Persian empire; do not grudge me this little earth which covers my body.”
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003
hernesheir commented on the word whencesoever
Hey! This word is a great addition to the list Adverbia. Thanks, 'zuzu.
March 16, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word whencesoever
I'll take credit for its whencey quality, but fbharjo's the lister. :-)
March 16, 2011