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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.


Example Sentences

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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 Pisan, Christin? de

But on the day following the joust, the esquires and the gentlefolk, but not the waiting-men, apparelled them, whatsoe'er it cost, in satin, broidered with silver.

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

Now by my son, myself, I swear, No gift, no promise whatsoe'er My steadfast soul shall now content, But only Ráma's banishment.”

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)

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.

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.

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