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whene'er

[hwen-, wen-air, hwuhn-, wuhn-]

conjunction

Literary.
  1. contraction of whenever.



whene'er

/ wɛnˈɛə /

adverb

  1. a poetic contraction of whenever

“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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Oh sir, she smiled, no doubt, Whene’er I passed her; but who passed without Much the same smile?

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Whene'er such wanderers I meete, As from their night-sports they trudge home, With counterfeiting voice I greete, And call them on with me to roame Through woods, through lakes, Through bogs, through brakes; Or else, unseene, with them I go, All in the nicke, To play some tricke, And frolicke it, with ho, ho, ho!

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Such cordial tributes are a good physician’s most highly-valued fees:— “Whene’er your vitality Is feeble in quality, And you fear a fatality May end the strife, Then Dr. Joe Dickson Is the man I would fix on For putting new wicks on The lamp of life.”

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Whene’er misfortunes come, how just!

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And thus unto our mutual loss, Whene’er I paced the sloping moss Of green Killiney, or across The intervening waters; Up Howth’s brown side my feet would wend To see thy sinuous bosom bend, Or view thine outstretched arms extend To clasp thine islet daughters.

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