whensoever
Americanadverb
conjunction
Etymology
Origin of whensoever
1275–1325; Middle English, equivalent to whenso (modeled on whereso; see wheresoever) + ever ever
Example Sentences
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And then because whensoever I tell you how I doe, by a Letter, before that Letter comes to you, I shall be otherwise, then when it left me.
From Letters to Severall Persons of Honour by Donne, John
You forget me absolutely and intirely, whensoever you forget me to that noble Countesse.
From Letters to Severall Persons of Honour by Donne, John
Ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will, ye may do them good: but me ye have not always.
From Joel: A Boy of Galilee by Johnston, Annie F. (Annie Fellows)
So it was that whensoever their cavalcade would make a halt, that place where they would rest would suddenly bloom forth, as it were, with the glory of their coming.
From The Story of Sir Launcelot and His Companions by Pyle, Howard
And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger cattle did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods.
From What a Young Husband Ought to Know by Stall, Sylvanus
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