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English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle English whatsoever. By surface analysis, what +‎ so +‎ ever.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˌwɒtsəʊˈɛvə(ɹ)/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˌ(h)wʌtsoʊˈɛvɚ/
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  • Rhymes: -ɛvə(ɹ)

Determiner

whatsoever

  1. (formal or literary) Whatever.
    The building may be used for whatsoever purpose the tenant desires.
    • 1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. , London: [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker ; nd by Robert Boulter ; nd Matthias Walker, , →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: , London: Basil Montagu Pickering , 1873, →OCLC, line 587:
      […] In whatſoever ſhape he lurk, […]

Usage notes

The word is sometimes divided by tmesis: “What things soever ye desire”. (King James Version, Mark 11:24)

Adverb

whatsoever (not comparable)

  1. In any way; at all; whatever.
    He gave me no answer whatsoever.
    • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 1:
      In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned.
    • 2019, Dierdre Nicole Green, “'I'm the Bishop!' and other Reflections”, in A Place to Belong, Deseret Book, →ISBN, page 141:
      ...my father's role as the ecclesiastical leader of our ward gave me no license whatsoever to expect obedience from my agemates?

Translations

Pronoun

whatsoever

  1. (archaic or literary) Whatever.
    Whatsoever you seek, you will find.
    • 1611, The Holy Bible,  (King James Version), London: Robert Barker, , →OCLC, Genesis 31:16:
      Whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.
    • c. 1613–1621, Francis Bacon, The judicial charge upon the commission of Oyer and Terminer held for the verge of the Court
      I must require you to use diligence in presenting especially those purloinings and imbezlements, which are of plate, vessel, or whatsoever within the King's house.

References

Middle English

Etymology

From what +‎ soever.

Determiner

whatsoever

  1. whatsoever; of whatever nature

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