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whencesoever

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

adverb

, Archaic.
  1. from whatsoever place, source, or cause.


whencesoever

/ ˌwɛnssəʊˈɛvə /

conjunction

  1. out of whatsoever place, cause, or origin
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of whencesoever1

1505–15; modeled on wheresoever; whence
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Example Sentences

Whencesoever it arose, certain it is that I contemplated the scene before me with altered eyes.

Whencesoever it arose, it could not endure the test of deliberation.

He said that whencesoever / these knights come to the Rhine, They bear a royal message, / or are of princely line.

Power is present means, whencesoever derived, to attain some future apparent good.

Arabella's yellow locks,—whencesoever they might have come,—were rough and uncombed.

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