whosesoever

English

Etymology

From whose +‎ soever.

Pronunciation

  • (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /ˌhuzsoʊˈɛvəɹ/, /ˈhuzsoʊˌɛvəɹ/
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Determiner

whosesoever (formal)

  1. Of whomsoever.
    Synonym: whosoever's
    • 1880, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Wisconsin, with Tables of the Cases and Principal Matters, volume XLIX, Chicago: Callaghan & Company, pages 317–318:
      If Beals obtained merely the possession, by fraud practiced upon the plaintiff, with fraudulent intent to deprive it thereof, and to appropriate the machine to his own use, and, immediately upon getting possession of it, did in fact fraudulently appropriate it to his own use, these acts constituted a larceny of the machine, and plaintiff could retake it, in whosesoëver possession it might be.

Pronoun

whosesoever (formal)

  1. That of whomsoever.
    Synonym: whosoever's
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