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WHATSOEVER
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
One or some or every or all without specification
Example:
no milk whatsoever is left
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
some ((quantifier) used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns to indicate an unspecified number or quantity)
Context examples:
Then an angel from heaven came to her and said: “Be at rest, you shall have a son with the power of wishing, so that whatsoever in the world he wishes for, that shall he have.”
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
I had not yet seen it, and upon this notice of an intended invasion, I avoided appearing on that side of the coast, for fear of being discovered, by some of the enemy’s ships, who had received no intelligence of me; all intercourse between the two empires having been strictly forbidden during the war, upon pain of death, and an embargo laid by our emperor upon all vessels whatsoever.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
In the first place buy yourself an A B C book of the kind which has a cock on the frontispiece; in the second, turn your cart and your two oxen into money, and get yourself some clothes, and whatsoever else pertains to medicine; thirdly, have a sign painted for yourself with the words: I am Doctor Knowall, and have that nailed up above your house-door.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
