† soˈmever, adv. Obs.
Also 5 som euer, 6 some ever.
[f. som(e sum conj. + ever adv. Cf. whatsomever, etc.]
= soever 2.
| c 1440 Alph. Tales 58 Whatt howr som euer þat a synner forthynkis his syn. 1560 J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 60 b, The same can easely destroye you also, what power somever you have. Ibid. 418 b, What action some ever any man had. 1621 R. Bolton Stat. Irel. 347 In whose hands or possession somever. |