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
It will reach you wheresoever you are, at the time you least suspect it, and from the quarter to which you have least looked.
From Lost Sir Massingberd, v. 2/2 A Romance of Real Life by Payn, James
Moreover, a long ray of light, reaching up to heaven, shone every night above them wheresoever they chanced to be, and that too in the sight of the very pagans that had slain them.
From Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, Cuthbert
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