- such as
whatever and wherever. (Older
forms of the
suffix are -so and -
soever, as in
whoso and whomsoever.)
These words have the
following main meanings:...
- friend; that in what
place soever they
choose to live, they may have free
liberty without any restraint; and at what port
soever they
shall arrive, that...
- in 18:18,
Jesus states: "what
things soever ye
shall bind on
earth shall be
bound in heaven; and what
things soever ye
shall loose on
earth shall be loosed...
- "Suffer nor
admit no
noblemen of our
realm or any others, of what
condition soever they be of, to
enter or come
within our said
Castle or to the
presence of...
- the
Petition 13 June 1642,
speaks of
Cavaliers as a "word by what
mistake soever it
seemes much in disfavour". It was soon
reappropriated as a
title of honour...
-
Matthew 18:18,
Jesus states: "what
things soever ye
shall bind on
earth shall be
bound in heaven; and what
things soever ye
shall loose on
earth shall be loosed...
- charity,
visiting the
gaols and
looking after the poor of what
persuasion soever they were". She
helped one of the parti****nts of the
failed Rye
House Plot...
- said: 'Receive ye the Holy Ghost:
Whose soever sins ye remit, they are
remitted unto them; and
whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.'. Jesus...
-
sceptical approach to self-interest as
driver of behaviour: How
selfish soever man may be supposed,
there are
evidently some
principles in his nature,...
- fix it;
However unfair it seems, fix it. As
relative words,
forms ending -
soever and -so are old-fashioned
variants of the -ever forms.: 356n, 1074n There...
