| 释义 |
wheresomever, adv., conj. Obs. exc. dial.|hwɛəsəmˈɛvə(r)|
[f. where + somever.]
1. = wherever 2, 2 b.
a1300Cursor M. 8931 Bot quar-sum-euer þis tre lai, Godd sceud þar-on his mightes ai. 1452Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 131/1 All and sindri my landis..within the realme of Scotland quharesumever. 1490Caxton Eneydos xvi. 62 Hys grete wynges..that bare hym..hyghe and lowe, where som⁓euere he wolde be. c1500Melusine xxxvi. 275 And take there your lodgys tofore them wheresomeuer it playse you. 1502W. Atkynson tr. De Imitatione ii. i. (1893) 179 Wheresomeuer we be in this worlde, we be as pylgryms and straungers. 1619J. Williams Serm. Apparell (1620) 30 The soules house is there, wheresomeuer it worketh.
2. = wherever 3.
1470–85Malory Arthur vii. vi. 221 Where someuer ye goo I wylle folowe you. 1501in Lett. Rich. III & Hen. VII (Rolls) I. 136 Wheresomever it shuld please the king to sende theym. a1592Greene Alphonsus i. ii, Arragon, Who..Doth play the diuell where some ere he comes.
3. = wherever 4.
1477Earl Rivers (Caxton) Dictes 21 Whersomeuer one dye the weye to the other worlde is alle like. c1489Caxton Sonnes of Aymon xxiv. 533 Mawgys habandouned never reynawd whersomever he went. 1599Shakes. Hen. V, ii. iii. 7 Would I were with him, wheresomere hee is. 1837R. Bird Nick of Woods iii. 43 He haunts about our woods..and kills 'em [sc. Indians] wheresomever he catches 'em. |