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whoe'er

American  
[hoo-air] / huˈɛər /

pronoun

Literary.
  1. contraction of whoever.


Example Sentences

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When they come, whoe'er they be, Seeking now that liberty From the devil's fangs be given, Glad are all the hosts of heaven.

From Paul Gerhardt's Spiritual Songs Translated by John Kelly by Gerhardt, Paul

And Apollodorus the Carystian, in his Stirrer-up of Law-suits, says— O men, whoe'er you are, why do you now Scorn pleasant living, and turn all your thoughts To do each other mischief in fierce war?

From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us

“Eurytus Hippodamia seiz'd; the rest “Grasp'd such as pleas'd them, or whoe'er they met.

From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by Howard, J. J.

Whoe'er has seen folk blissfuller, whoe'er a more propitious union?

From The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

Natheless they clung, That remnant spared, to rocky hills of Wales With eagle clutch, whoe'er in England ruled, From Horsa's day to Edward's.

From Legends of the Saxon Saints by De Vere, Aubrey

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