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English
Conjunction
where'er
- (poetic) Contraction of wherever.
1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :Yet a tailor might scratch her where'er she did itch.
1819 (date written), Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Masque of Anarchy. A Poem. , London: Edward Moxon , published 1832, →OCLC, stanza XXXI, page 16:As flowers beneath her footstep waken, / As stars from night's loose hair are shaken, / As waves arise when loud winds call, / Thoughts sprung where'er that step did fall.
1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:'Where'er the sun shakes out his spears, and the lonesome waters mirror up the moon, where'er storms roll, and Heaven's painted bows arch in the sky - from the pure North clad in snows, across the middle spaces of the world, to where the amorous South, lying like a bride upon her blue couch of seas, breathes in sighs made sweet with the odour of myrtles - there shall thy power pass and thy dominion find a home.'
- 2008, Paul Weller, Where'er Ye Go (song), on 22 Dreams (album):
- And where'er ye go
- That we'll never know
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