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English
Adverb
whensoëver (not comparable)
- Obsolete spelling of whensoever.
1653, Christina, A Declaration of Her Sacred Majestie of Sweden, Concerning the Setling of Convoys about Gothemburg, London: W. D., page 5:But otherwiſe whenſoëver 10 Merchant-Ships ſhall bee ready at Gothemburg to bee convoyed, they ſhall do it without regarding the time.
1655, Philip Sidney, The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia, the tenth edition, London: William Du-Gard, page 186:But the truth indeed is, that partly with the ſhame and ſorrow ſhee took of her father’s faultineſs, partly with the fear, that the hate I conceived againſt him, would utterly diſgrace her in my opinion, whenſoëver I ſhould know her, ſo vehemently perplexed her, that her fair color decayed, and daily and haſtily grew into the very extreme working of ſorrowfullneſs: […]
1663, John Selden, [Marchamont Nedham, transl.], edited by J H, Mare Clausum; The Right and Dominion of the Sea in Two Books, London: Andrew Kembe and Edward Thomas, page 258:So many Kings as Vaſſals, to bee readie alwaies to aſsiſt with their Forces, whenſoëver they ſhould bee required, both by Sea and Land.
1753, Benjamin Whichcote, Moral and Religious Aphorisms, London: J. Payne, page 33:[…]; whomſoëver and whenſoëver God juſtifieth, hee alſo ſanctifieth: […]