wheresomever, adv., conj. Obs. exc. dial.
(hwɛəsəmˈɛvə(r))
[f. where + somever.]
1. = wherever 2, 2 b.
| a 1300 Cursor M. 8931 Bot quar-sum-euer þis tre lai, Godd sceud þar-on his mightes ai. 1452 Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 131/1 All and sindri my landis..within the realme of Scotland quharesumever. 1490 Caxton Eneydos xvi. 62 Hys grete wynges..that bare hym..hyghe and lowe, where som⁓euere he wolde be. c 1500 Melusine xxxvi. 275 And take there your lodgys tofore them wheresomeuer it playse you. 1502 W. Atkynson tr. De Imitatione ii. i. (1893) 179 Wheresomeuer we be in this worlde, we be as pylgryms and straungers. 1619 J. Williams Serm. Apparell (1620) 30 The soules house is there, wheresomeuer it worketh. |
2. = wherever 3.
| 1470–85 Malory Arthur vii. vi. 221 Where someuer ye goo I wylle folowe you. 1501 in Lett. Rich. III & Hen. VII (Rolls) I. 136 Wheresomever it shuld please the king to sende theym. a 1592 Greene Alphonsus i. ii, Arragon, Who..Doth play the diuell where some ere he comes. |
3. = wherever 4.
| 1477 Earl Rivers (Caxton) Dictes 21 Whersomeuer one dye the weye to the other worlde is alle like. c 1489 Caxton Sonnes of Aymon xxiv. 533 Mawgys habandouned never reynawd whersomever he went. 1599 Shakes. Hen. V, ii. iii. 7 Would I were with him, wheresomere hee is. 1837 R. Bird Nick of Woods iii. 43 He haunts about our woods..and kills 'em [sc. Indians] wheresomever he catches 'em. |