Dictionary.com
Thesaurus.com

whatsoe'er

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

pronoun

Literary.
  1. contraction of whatsoever.


Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

See Examples For:

How beautiful ye are! how beautiful Your works, or accidents, or whatsoe'er They may be!

From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley

And whatsoe'er each guest did eat or drink Straight reappear'd in twofold quantity.

From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us

“Thou wouldst have me to conceive, then, that thou art wholly free from any plight whatsoe’er unto Arthur?”

From Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada by Holt, Emily Sarah

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 Skeats, Wilfred S.

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 Wells, Carolyn

Vocabulary.com logo
by dictionary.com

Join 12,000,000 vocabulary learners

Start learning new words today on VocabTrainer.
You'll remember them forever.

Start training