wherever.' name='description'> where'er - definition and meaning

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • A contracted form of wherever.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb Wherever; -- a contracted and poetical form.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • conjunction poetic Contraction of wherever.

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Examples

  • Here Hick elucidates his vision of a the need for a pluralistic view of religion: Now given that the large majority of human beings are born and live, and always have lived, outside Christianity, does it make sense to think that it is God's will that 'Jesus shall reign where'er the sun does his successive journeys run'?

    Joe Winkler: Mourning John Hick: One Of The Greatest Theologians Of Our Time Joe Winkler 2012

  • And thou, lorn Wisdom's child, where'er thou art —

    The Age Reviewed 2010

  • Here Hick elucidates his vision of a the need for a pluralistic view of religion: Now given that the large majority of human beings are born and live, and always have lived, outside Christianity, does it make sense to think that it is God's will that 'Jesus shall reign where'er the sun does his successive journeys run'?

    Joe Winkler: Mourning John Hick: One Of The Greatest Theologians Of Our Time Joe Winkler 2012

  • Of course, I can't speak for other doodlers but for me the best thing about doodling is that the hand holding the pen or pencil just goes where'er it will, with no volition.

    Doodling is quite appropriate. Ann Althouse 2009

  • Perform the ceremony; rear the tomb where'er thou wilt.

    Helen 2008

  • Perform the ceremony; rear the tomb where'er thou wilt.

    Helen 2008

  • Smokers are the new street people you see where'er you go coughing hacking lighting up in the wind, in the rain, in the snow in the fog, in the hail, in the dust and the heat dirtying our city streets cigarette smokers have become the uptown equivalent of the Bowery Bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum

    Smokers 2007

  • Smokers are the new street people you see where'er you go coughing hacking lighting up in the wind, in the rain, in the snow in the fog, in the hail, in the dust and the heat dirtying our city streets cigarette smokers have become the uptown equivalent of the Bowery Bum

    Smokers 2007

  • Smokers are the new street people you see where'er you go coughing hacking lighting up in the wind, in the rain, in the snow in the fog, in the hail, in the dust and the heat dirtying our city streets cigarette smokers have become the uptown equivalent of the Bowery Bum

    Smokers 2007

  • Smokers are the new street people you see where'er you go coughing hacking lighting up in the wind, in the rain, in the snow in the fog, in the hail, in the dust and the heat dirtying our city streets cigarette smokers have become the uptown equivalent of the Bowery Bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum

    Smokers 2007

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