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 thetetrasyllabic wheresoever .
Etymologies
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Examples
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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MR. RICH: Dear sister, let your stars alone and learn to shun folly, wheresoe'er you find it.
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Was ever constant known, which wheresoe'er she came
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 567, September 22, 1832 Various
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Then wander wheresoe'er you will, it ne'er will be forgot --
The Old Hanging Fork and Other Poems George W. Doneghy
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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
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Wet with dew and perfume-laden, nodding wheresoe'er we tread;
Just Folks 1920
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