Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • conjunction In, to, or from whatever place at all; wherever.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In what place soever; in what ever place.
  • Whencesoever.
  • Whithersoever; to what place soever.

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

  • adverb In what place soever; in whatever place; wherever.

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

  • conjunction wherever
  • adverb wherever

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb where in the world

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Examples

  • There were carved tablets and many inscriptions in Latin wheresoever one glanced.

    T. Tembarom 1913

  • Then Ciaran put his books upon a wild stag; afterwards he accompanied the wild stag wheresoever it would go.

    The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of The Celtic Saints Anonymous

  • The echo repeats Leandra’s name wheresoever it can be formed; the woods resound Leandra; the brooks do murmur Leandra; and Leandra holds us all perplexed and enchanted, hoping without hope, and fearing without knowledge what we fear.

    The Fourth Book. XXIV. Relating That Which the Goatherd Told to Those That Carried Away Don Quixote 1909

  • It is a matter that must be done both by king and parliament, and when the knights of the shires and the representatives of the great towns meet, they will be equally indisposed to grant concessions to men who have burned palaces, destroyed all deeds and titles wheresoever they could find them, killed every man of law on whom they could lay hands, and throughout all England have risen against the lords of the soil.

    A March on London 1867

  • And wheresoever you find this nose upon the face of a man, strike it off forthright and bring it in all haste to the Court, for the King must be cured.

    A NOSE FOR THE KING 2010

  • In my view, any US citizen has standing to object in Federal Court to a management decision made about Federal land, wheresoever that land is located.

    Bush Administration v. Environmental Groups 2009

  • You, Li Wan, are my wife, and the wife travels the husband's trail wheresoever it goes.

    LI-WAN, THE FAIR 2010

  • In my view, any US citizen has standing to object in Federal Court to a management decision made about Federal land, wheresoever that land is located.

    Bush Administration v. Environmental Groups 2009

  • More particularly do we pray for the safety and welfare of our own family and friends wheresoever dispersed, beseeching thee to avert from them all material and lasting evil of body or mind: and may we by the assistance of thy Holy Spirit so conduct ourselves on earth as to secure an eternity of happiness with each other in Thy Heavenly Kingdom.

    It Was a Cheerful Home at the Austens' Linda 2009

  • More particularly do we pray for the safety and welfare of our own family and friends wheresoever dispersed, beseeching thee to avert from them all material and lasting evil of body or mind: and may we by the assistance of thy Holy Spirit so conduct ourselves on earth as to secure an eternity of happiness with each other in Thy Heavenly Kingdom.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Linda 2009

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