whencesoever

[ hwens-soh-ev-er, wens- ]

adverb, conjunctionArchaic.

from whatsoever place, source, or cause.

Origin of whencesoever

1505–15; modeled on wheresoever; see whence

Words Nearby whencesoever

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How to use whencesoever in a sentence

whencesoever it arose, certain it is that I contemplated the scene before me with altered eyes.
Arthur Mervyn | Charles Brockden Brown
whencesoever it arose, it could not endure the test of deliberation.
Wieland; or The Transformation | Charles Brockden Brown
He said that whencesoever / these knights come to the Rhine, They bear a royal message, / or are of princely line.
The Nibelungenlied | Unknown
Power is present means, whencesoever derived, to attain some future apparent good.
The World's Greatest Books--Volume 14--Philosophy and Economics | Various
Arabella's yellow locks,—whencesoever they might have come,—were rough and uncombed.
The American Senator | Anthony Trollope

British Dictionary definitions for whencesoever

whencesoever

/ (ˌwɛnssəʊˈɛvə) /

conjunction, adverb(subordinating) archaic

out of whatsoever place, cause, or origin

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