wheresoever
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.57 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
conj
adv
Example Sentences
- "While wee, returning again to embark our ſelvs for Greece, underſtood that the mightie Otanes (brother to Barzanes, ſlain by Muſidorus, in the battell of the ſix Princes) had entred upon the kingdom of Pontus, partly upon the pretences hee had 20 to the crown, but principally, becauſ hee would revenge upon him (whom hee knew wee loved) the loſs of his brother, thinking (as indeed he had cauſ) that whereſoëver wee were, hearing of his extremity, wee would com to reliev him;"
- "We have said that in our judgment there was no evidence which would justify a jury in finding that the defendants, for a valuable consideration, sold the working right to the entire Heathcock range, wheresoëver it might run on lands owned by them."
Etymology
From Middle English hwer se eaver, hwer-se-eaver, hwer so ever, qheresoevere, quar-sua-ever, quere-so-ever, wer so ever, wharsoever, where-sere, wheresoever, where so evere, wher ser, wher-sever, wher-so-ever, wher so evere, wher-so-evere, whe[r] so er, whor so ever. By surface analysis, where + so + -ever. Cognate with West Frisian hwērsāea (“wheresoever”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: hwer se eaver
Inflected Forms
Phrases
1. Scottish2. from Middle English mid3. old dialectal form