whoso
Americanpronoun
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whomso
objective
pronoun
Etymology
Origin of whoso
1125–75; Middle English, early Middle English hwa swa, Old English ( swā ) hwā swā. See who, so 1
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William McKinley in 1901: Proverbs 16:20-21 “He that handleth a matter wiseley shall find good: and whoso trusteth in the Lord, happy is he.”
From Time ● Jan. 19, 2017
Was it not written: "Here lies the great King and whoso disturbs this tomb, on him may the curse of the Pharaoh rest"?
From Time Magazine Archive
Whoso bears the sun in himself is able to warm all everywhere; but whoso is a flame, even the most ardent, warms only those who are nearest.
From Pan Michael An Historical Novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and Turkey. by Henryk Sienkiewicz
The seed I sow is lucky, The corn I reap is red, And whoso sings the Gilly’s Rann Will never cry for bread.
From The Mountainy Singer by Seosamh MacCathmhaoil
Vasari says, "To whoso considers this work, it does not seem from the hand of a youth, but from that of an accomplished and past master in these studies, and experienced in the art."
From The Story of Florence by Edmund G. Gardner
And he took the wand wherewith he lulls the eyes of whomso he will, while others again he even wakes from out of sleep.
From The Odyssey Done into English prose by Andrew Lang
Then spake king Etzel: "Dear lady mine, and it think you not too far, I'll bid hither to my lands, from across the Rhine, whomso ye be fain to see."
From The Nibelungenlied by Daniel Bussier Shumway
It will be noted that whoever, whosoever, and whoso have objective forms, whomever, whomsoever, and whomso; and possessive forms, whosoever, whosesoever, and Page 28 whoseso.
From Practical Grammar and Composition by Thomas Wood
They say to whomso they meet, Do; and he must do it: all men's goods are at their disposal; for France is as one huge City in Siege.
From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle
The heart's pain is removed * by union with the beloved * and whomso his lover paineth * only Allah assaineth!
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 03 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
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