wheresoever
Americanconjunction
conjunction
Etymology
Origin of wheresoever
1275–1325; Middle English, equivalent to whereso wherever ( Old English ( swā ) hwǣr swā ) + ever ever
Example Sentences
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Rain turning eye-salt to rivulets, rivulets to rivers wheresoever many weep as one.
From New York Times ● Nov. 26, 2020
And wheresoever men met Ye shall be so reconciled together As that it shall hold for ever between you.
From Time Magazine Archive
This suggests a hypothesis: wheresoever you find kids who would rather debate foreign aid than drink Cokes, there too you will find kids who say they like their parents.
From Time Magazine Archive
And always the wolf followed after the king, and might not be kept from him, wheresoever he went.
From Tales from the Old French by Various
Next he obtained, first among the abbots of England, that he might be able to give episcopal benediction solemnly, wheresoever he might happen to be, and this he obtained for himself and for his successors.
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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