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where'er

American  
[wair-air, hwair-] / wɛərˈɛər, ʰwɛər- /

conjunction

Literary.
  1. contraction of wherever.


where'er British  
/ wɛərˈɛə /

adverb

  1. a poetic contraction of wherever

"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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Let me go where'er I will I hear a sky-born music still.

From Time Magazine Archive

XVI "Let us divide among us the huntsmen and the hounds, Then each, where'er he pleases, beat all these woody bounds, And who excels his comrades, shall thanks have from the rest."

From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown

Long may you live, secure from woes, Late dying, meet a calm repose, And flowers, that in profusion grow, Bloom round your steps, where'er you go.

From The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume II (of III) by Philip Freneau

And let the north wind to her ruin haste, With such a rage, as when from mountains high He rends the tall oak with his weighty blast, And ruin spreads where'er his forces fly.

From The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume II (of III) by Philip Freneau

Thy fickle fancy, Yet unfetter'd, will not always thus, Gay as the light breeze, rove where'er she list, Nor heeding ought she passes.

From The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character by John Roby

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