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Webster 1913 Edition


Whatsoever

Whatˊso-ev′er

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p
ron.
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Adj.
Whatever.
“In whatsoever shape he lurk.”
Milton.
Whatsoever
God hath said unto thee, do.
Gen. xxxi. 16.
☞ The word is sometimes divided by tmesis. “What things soever ye desire.”
Mark xi. 24.

Webster 1828 Edition


Whatsoever

WHATSOEVER

, a compound of what, so, and ever, has the sense of whatever, and is less used than the latter. Indeed it is nearly obsolete. Whatso, in a like sense, is entirely obsolete.