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wheresoever, adv., conj. Now formal or arch.|hwɛəsəʊˈɛvə(r)|
Also poet. wheresoe'er |-ˈɛə(r)|; 7 -ere, -e're; also 4–5 contr. wher(e)sere.
[f. whereso + ever; cf. soever.]
1. = wherever 2, 5.
13..Cursor M. 8931 (Gött.) Bot quar-sua-euer [Cott. quar-sum-euer] þis tre lay, God schued þar-on his mihtes ay. 13..Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 644 Quere-so-euer þys mon in melly was stad, His þro þoȝt was in þat, þurȝ alle oþer þyngez. a1400–50Bk. Curtasye 105 in Babees Bk. 302 Where-sere þou sitt at mete in borde, Avoide þe cat. 1526Tindale Matt. xxvi. 13 Wheresoever this gospell shalbe preached.., there shall also thys thatt she hath done, be tolde for a memoriall of her. 1588A. King tr. Canisius' Catech. 35 We worschipe Christ him Selffe and his Sancts, quhairsoewir thay ar repræsentit vnto ws be thair images. 1671Milton P.R. iii. 79 Conquerours, who leave behind Nothing but ruin wheresoe're they rove. 1733Watts Philos. Ess. i. x. (1734) 35 Wheresoever Body is, there Space is not. 1859Ruskin Two Paths i. §23 Wheresoever the search after truth begins, there life begins. 1890Bridges Shorter Poems iv. xxv, But wheresoe'er he take his way, He killeth our delight.
b. ellipt. = wherever 2 b.
1561T. Hoby tr. Castiglione's Courtyer ii. (1577) H j b, Meeting in the market place or wheresoever anye friende. 1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. lv. §7 The person of Christ is whole, perfect God and perfect man wheresoeuer. 1633J. Done Hist. Septuagint 58 In all the Treasors, neyther in all the Cabinets, or other wheresoeuer, was not to bee found any thing so rich.
2. = wherever 3.
c1320Cast. Love (ed. Hall.) 431 Ne helpyth him nothyng whersere he wynde. c1400Rule St. Benet (verse) 2215 And whor so euer þai gang o-boute, Þe ȝonger sal þe elder loute. 1535Coverdale Mark xiv. 14 Where so euer he goeth in, there saye ye to the good man of the house [etc.]. 1600Shakes. A.Y.L. i. iii. 77 And wheresoere we went, like Iunos Swans, Still we went coupled and inseperable. 1697Dryden æneis xi. 1124 This way and that his winding Course he bends; And wheresoe're she turns, her Steps attends. 1711Steele Spect. No. 134 ⁋6 [She] still goes on laying waste wheresoever she comes. 1818Shelley Eugan. Hills 30 Wander wheresoe'er he may. 1865Tennyson Captain 20 He..Hoped to make the name Of his vessel great in story, Wheresoe'er he came.
3. = wherever 4.
a1450Myrc Par. Pr. etc. 64 Hit is to tyȝe [= tyþe]..Off hey, where-sere hit growes. c1475Rauf Coilȝear 759 The nixt vacant..That hapnis in France, quhair sa euer it fall,..I gif the heir heritabilly. 1573D. P. Cert. Rules Geog. A iv, Where so euer you are, imagine a poynt or pricke directly ouer your head, which is called Zenith. 1645Vane Lost Sheepe 267 Wheresoere they are, or whatsoeuer doing, they soe behaue themselues, as if with Saint Hierome, they heard the sound of the Archangells trump. 1853Kingsley Hypatia xxx, Wulf, too, had gone to his own place, wheresoever that may be. |