whatever: an emphatic form
also Old Poet.what·so·e'er′
adjective
The definition of whatsoever is whatever.
An example of whatsoever used as an adjective is in the phrase, "no decision whatsoever," which means no decision was made.
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whatsoever
pron.
Whatever.
adjective
Whatever: no power whatsoever.
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Usage notes
The word is sometimes divided by tmesis: “What things soever ye desire". (Mark xi. 24)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
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Sentence Examples
- There is no indication whatsoever he cares a flip about that picture.
- There was no running water, no food supplies, no energy whatsoever, just a deteriorating building with a score of insurgents and a small black box.
- "The Decrees of God are His eternal Purpose according to the Counsel of His Will, whereby for His Own Glory He hath foreordained whatsoever comes to pass."
- As of whatsoever fishes increasing in the rivers"; also "to reform nets too straight and other unlawful engines and instruments whatsoever for the catching of fishes"; also to take cognizance "of the wreck of the sea.
- In this original scheme it is clearly marked out "that this entire Society and all its members fight for God under the faithful obedience of the most sacred lord, the pope, and the other Roman pontiffs his successors"; and Ignatius makes particular mention th4t each member should "be bound by a special vow," beyond that formal obligation under which all Christians are of obeying the pope, "so that whatsoever the present and other Roman pontiffs for the time being shall ordain, pertaining to the advancement of souls and the propagation of the faith, to whatever provinces he shall resolve to send us, we are straightway bound to obey, as far as in us lies, without any tergiversation or excuse, whether he send us among the Turks or to any other unbelievers in being, even to those parts called India, or to any heretics or schismatics or likewise to any believers."
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