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Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • A contracted form of wheresoever.

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

  • adverb Poetic Wheresoever.

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

  • conjunction literary Wheresoever; used as a trisyllabic alternative to the tetrasyllabic wheresoever.

Etymologies

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Contraction of wheresoever

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Examples

  • For this were shame, that they whom no oracles bind and who have not come under Fate's iron law, should stand there, shoulder to shoulder, with never a fear of death, and fight for their country before her towers, while I escape the kingdom like a coward, a traitor to my father and brother and city; and wheresoe'er I live, I shall appear a dastard.

    The Phoenissae 2008

  • Eurystheus thought it fit to put this further outrage upon us: wheresoe'er he heard that we were settling, thither would he send heralds demanding our surrender and driving us from thence, holding out this threat, that

    The Heracleidae 2008

  • Eurystheus thought it fit to put this further outrage upon us: wheresoe'er he heard that we were settling, thither would he send heralds demanding our surrender and driving us from thence, holding out this threat, that

    The Heracleidae 2008

  • For this were shame, that they whom no oracles bind and who have not come under Fate's iron law, should stand there, shoulder to shoulder, with never a fear of death, and fight for their country before her towers, while I escape the kingdom like a coward, a traitor to my father and brother and city; and wheresoe'er I live, I shall appear a dastard.

    The Phoenissae 2008

  • We still have slept together, Rose at an instant, learned, played, eat together, And wheresoe'er we went, like Juno's swans Still we went coupled and inseparable.

    Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002

  • MR. RICH: Dear sister, let your stars alone and learn to shun folly, wheresoe'er you find it.

    The Beau Defeated: or, The Lucky Younger Brother 1999

  • Was ever constant known, which wheresoe'er she came

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 567, September 22, 1832 Various

  • Then wander wheresoe'er you will, it ne'er will be forgot --

    The Old Hanging Fork and Other Poems George W. Doneghy

  • He that honors not himself lacks honor wheresoe'er he goes.

    The Architecture and Landscape Gardening of the Exposition A Pictorial Survey of the Most Beautiful Achitectural Compositions of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition Louis Christian Mullgardt

  • Wet with dew and perfume-laden, nodding wheresoe'er we tread;

    Just Folks 1920

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