whencesoever

[ hwens-soh-ev-er, wens- ]

adverb

, Archaic.

1. from whatsoever place, source, or cause.

whencesoever

/ ˌwɛnssəʊˈɛvə /

conjunction

1. out of whatsoever place, cause, or origin

Word History and Origins

Origin of whencesoever¹

1505–15; modeled on wheresoever; whence

Example Sentences

Let us assume, now, that under all circumstances we somehow sense the direction of the total resultant mass-acceleration whencesoever it may arise as the vertical.

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To all verbs, then, from the AngloÐSaxon, to all based on the uncorrupted infinitival stems of Latin verbs of the first conjugation, and to all substantives, whencesoever sprung, we annex Ïable only.¸

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Somewhere underneath 261 the soil lies the clean, firm limestone, and the volcanic matter, whencesoever it came, did no more than fill a hollow of the hills, and turn it into the loveliest valley in the world.

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But whencesoever these mysterious colonies came, they have shown not a trace of the great heart and spirit which animated the earliest settlers of their race upon Italian shores.

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Whencesoever it came, there was once a high audacity among the seamen of this small port, little as it counts among the harbours of Italy to-day.

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