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 the unclean spirits, whensoever they beheld Him, fell down before Him, and cried, saying, Thou art the Son of God.
From The Gospel According to St. Mark by G. A. Chadwick
Then, when he had led them for a while, he said to Sir Beaumains, "My lord, my thirty knights and I shall always be at thy command whensoever thou shalt send for us."
From King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table by Unknown
The only hope I hed war that the ole ooman ’ud be arter me, as she usooally is whensoever I’m missin’ for a spell.
From The Guerilla Chief And other Tales by Mayne Reid
A governor on his appointment is invested with a silver sword as a badge of office, and is bound to appear with his contingent of militia, whensoever summoned for military service.
From The Highlands of Ethiopia by William Cornwallis Harris
The abbot waxed exceedingly wroth, and wished to depose the sacrist, alleging that he possessed a privilege of our lord the pope, giving him power of deposing William, his sacrist, whensoever it pleased him.
From The Chronicle of Jocelin of Brakelond: A Picture of Monastic Life in the Days of Abbot Samson by Jocelin de Brakelond
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