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whatsoe'er

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[hwuht-soh-air, hwot-, wuht-, wot-] / ˌʰwʌt soʊˈɛər, ˌʰwɒt-, ˌwʌt-, ˌwɒt- /

pronoun

Literary.
  1. contraction of whatsoever.


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Command of me, my Lady and my queen, All thy good pleasure, as I were thy slave, Which I shall do with glad and humble mien That whatsoe'er thou willest, thou may'st have.

From The Book of the Duke of True Lovers by Christin? de Pisan

His talents I cannot rehearse, But every one allows That whatsoe'er he wrote in verse, No one could call it prose.

From The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells

Man needs the presence of his fellow-man, And ever needs it, whatsoe'er his mood; Except when, in the hour he calls his own, He holds communion with his God alone.

From The Song of the Exile—A Canadian Epic by Wilfred S. Skeats

Nor need's amaze! for in good health are ye all, grandly ye digest, naught fear ye, nor arson nor house-fall, thefts impious nor poison's furtive cunning, nor aught of perilous happenings whatsoe'er.

From The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus by Sir Richard Francis Burton

Whate'er of pain the passing years allot I gladly bear; With thee I triumph whatsoe'er my lot Nor can despair.

From From Crow-Scaring to Westminster; an Autobiography by George Edwards M.P. O.B.E.

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