whatsoe'er
English
Determiner
whatsoe'er
- Archaic form of whatsoever.
Pronoun
whatsoe'er
- Archaic form of whatsoever.
- 1818, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Canto Fourth”, in The Revolt of Islam; […], London: […] [F]or C[harles] and J[ames] Ollier, […]; by B[uchanan] M‘Millan, […], →OCLC, stanza XII, page 81:
- From whatsoe’er my wakened thoughts create / Out of the hopes of thine aspirings bold, / Have I collected language to unfold / Truth to my countrymen; […]
- 1827, [Henry Taylor], act III, scene V, in Isaac Comnenus. A Play., London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 134:
- Cousin, good night; / And whatsoe’er be told of me henceforth, / A most untruthful annalist were he, / Who said I did not love my cousin Anna.
- 1858 April, [Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.], “The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table”, in The Atlantic Monthly[1], volume I, number VI, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 October 2013, page 744, column 2:
- That weakness smoothed the path of sin, / In half the slips our youth has known; / And whatsoe’er its blame has been, / That Mercy flowers on faults outgrown.