whoever: an emphatic form
pronoun
Whosoever is defined as whoever.
An example of whosoever used as a pronoun is in the sentence, "Whosoever wants to have dessert needs to finish dinner immediately," which means that anyone who wants dessert has to finish dinner immediately.
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Whoever.
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Sentence Examples
- Yet the deepest strain here is more serenely universalist even than St Paul, for here Jesus says: " God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should.
- Thus whosoever curses the king is stoned as though God Himself had been cursed (2 Sam.
- And, verily, whosoever has this trust, for him there is no uncertainty."
- 2 ("Whosoever killeth you," &c.) may point to the power of inflicting the major penalty.
- The fowls of the air and all beasts that are under the earth or upon the earth and the fishes of the sea (these are they which draw) you and the kingdom of Heaven is within you and whosoever shall know himself shall find it.
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