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Webster 1913 Edition
Whatsoever
Whatˊso-ev′er
,p
ron.
& 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.Definition 2025
whatsoever
whatsoever
English
Adjective
whatsoever (not comparable)
- Whatever.
- John Milton
- In whatsoever shape he lurk.
- The Holy Bible, Genesis xxxi. 16
- Whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.
- John Milton
- In any way; at all.
- 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 1, in The Celebrity:
- In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned.
- He gave me no answer whatsoever.
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Translations
in any way
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Pronoun
whatsoever
- (obsolete) whatever
- Bible, Genesis xxxi. 16
- Whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.
- Francis Bacon
- […] I must require you to use diligence in presenting especially those purloinings and imbezlements, which are of plate, vessel, or whatsoever within the King's house.
- Bible, Genesis xxxi. 16
Usage notes
The word is sometimes divided by tmesis: “What things soever ye desire”. (Mark xi. 24)