whoso

American  

[hoo-soh] / ˈhu soʊ /

pronoun

• whomso
  objective

1. whosoever; whoever.

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whoso British  

/ ˈhuːsəʊ /

pronoun

1. an archaic word for whoever

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Etymology

Origin of whoso

1125–75; Middle English, early Middle English hwa swa, Old English ( swā ) hwā swā. See who, so ¹

Example Sentences

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whoso whomso

William McKinley in 1901: Proverbs 16:20-21 “He that handleth a matter wiseley shall find good: and whoso trusteth in the Lord, happy is he.”

From Time ● Jan. 19, 2017

Was it not written: "Here lies the great King and whoso disturbs this tomb, on him may the curse of the Pharaoh rest"?

From Time Magazine Archive

On this subject men say, Whoso governs a kingdom in knowledge, the same is the destroyer of that kingdom; whoso governs a kingdom assigning no reason, the same maintains that kingdom.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Karl Ritter von Scherzer

Whoso begs for an armistice exhibits fear and weakness, and whoso looks for succor mistrusts his own power.

From Pan Michael An Historical Novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and Turkey. by Henryk Sienkiewicz

But whoso doth these orders disobey, Unto the stocks we will take him straight way, There to remain until he be willing To pay his forfeit, and the clerk a shilling.

From Ecclesiastical Curiosities by Various

On the tables lay bread, butter, cake in hunches, tea-pots, milk-jugs, sugar-basins—all things to whomso could secure them in the conflict.

From The Nether World by George Gissing

They say to whomso they meet, Do; and he must do it: all men's goods are at their disposal; for France is as one huge City in Siege.

From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle

And he took the wand wherewith he lulls the eyes of whomso he will, while others again he even wakes from out of sleep.

From The Odyssey Done into English prose by Andrew Lang

And with the whisper filtered another—that she was rich; that she had lumps of gold, which she would give gladly to whomso aided in placing her Antonin on the throne.

From Imperial Purple by Edgar Saltus

It will be noted that whoever, whosoever, and whoso have objective forms, whomever, whomsoever, and whomso; and possessive forms, whosoever, whosesoever, and Page 28 whoseso.

From Practical Grammar and Composition by Thomas Wood