whoso
Americanpronoun
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whomso
objective
pronoun
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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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
But whoso leaves this service leaves the traitor; to him forgiveness of the king, forgiveness of the hetman!
From The Deluge, Vol. II. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. by Henryk Sienkiewicz
And whoso being led on and upward by human loves begins to see that Beauty, he is not far, I say, from reaching the end of all.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers
Whoso made me commander, whoso gave me power, whoso had confidence that I would do what was useful for the country and the faith, let him stand at my side.
From The Deluge, Vol. II. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. by Henryk Sienkiewicz
Now, therefore, shall the King’s Son be free, though he know it not, to cast his love on whomso he will; and, in a way, I also shall be free to yeasay him.
From Wood Beyond the World by William Morris
It so happened that under the republic there was a law against whomso diminished the majesty of the people.
From Imperial Purple by Edgar Saltus
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
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
The heart's pain is removed * by union with the beloved * and whomso his lover paineth * only Allah assaineth!
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 03 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
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