whensomever, adv., conj. Now dial. or vulgar.
(hwɛnsəmˈɛvə(r))
[See somever 2.]
= prec.
| a 1425 tr. Arderne's Treat. Fistula etc. 61 When-someuer þe pacient feleþ tyklyng or ychyng or prykkyng in þe lure. 1507 Cov. Leet Bk. 608 When-sume-euer and as often as the case shall require. 1558 Q. Kennedy Compend. Tract. in Wodrow Soc. Misc. (1844) 99 Quhensumevir questioun or debait rysis. 1611 in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. i. 547 The next degree I expecte is some violent fryars and Jesuites inciting..the Catholick Princes against hereticks... Which whensomever it bee I confidently beleeve you shall see y⊇ tragedie begin in France. 1810 Splendid Follies III. 112 You have my consent, sir, to marry the girl whensumdever it's convenient. |