Whatsoever
[wɒtsəʊ'evə] or [,hwɑtso'ɛvɚ]
Definition
(pron. & a.) Whatever.
Checker: Thomas
Synonyms and Synonymous
pron. Whatever.
Typist: Wolfgang
Examples
- His advice, energy, activity, money, credit, all his resources whatsoever, were all made useless. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- He was going to dig, with whatsoever object, for he tucked up his cuffs and spat on his hands, and then went at it like an old digger as he was. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- It makes a striking and lively picture from whatsoever point you contemplate it. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- If anybody, of whatsoever degree, said a word that he didn't approve of, he instantly required to have it taken down. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Tom read, in his only literary cabinet, of one who had learned in whatsoever state he was, therewith to be content. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- And that is no use whatsoever. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Ay, reverend valorous sir, stammered poor Isaac, and whatsoever ransom a poor man may pay for her deliverance--- Peace! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Here, you may look in whatsoever direction you please, and your eye encounters scarcely any thing but ruin, ruin, ruin! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Nothing whatsoever. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- He might have been saying anything whatsoever. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The idea of bandying Ellen Olenska's name with him at such a time, and on whatsoever provocation, was unthinkable. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Whatsoever he looked at, grew into that form sooner or later. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Besides, I meddle not the least with any party, but write without passion, prejudice, or ill-will against any man, or number of men, whatsoever. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- And James and John, the sons of Zebedee, come unto him, saying Master, we would that thou shouldest do for us whatsoever we shall desire. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- If, on the other hand, she died leaving children, then their interest, naturally and necessarily, superseded all other interests whatsoever. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- She had a perfect calm sufficiency, an easy indifference to any criticism whatsoever, as if she were beyond it. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- But Justinian seems so mixed up in the affair, and apparently without any reason whatsoever. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Not anywhere whatsoever? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- And into whatsoever atmosphere of secrecy his own shadow may pass, let all concerned in the secrecy beware! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The mother sat bunched up in silence, her beautiful white hands, that had no rings whatsoever, clasping the pommels of her arm-chair. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
Typist: Wolfgang