whatsoever

«whatsoever» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: whatever; at all — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic word

modern equivalent

whatever; at all

part of speech

adverb; pronoun or determiner

meaning for a pupil

Anything at all; whatever it may be. tree →

how it differs from today

Today it is formal and is mostly used with "no", "none" or "nothing" to add emphasis; in these texts it means "whatever" in the sense of "anything at all", and the form itself is old.

examples

• Now then, whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.' (Torah GEN.31.16, JPS 1917) tree →
• The Priest hasn't got anything whatsoever to do with it." (Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore) tree →
• Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that is a detestable thing unto you. (Torah LEV.11.12, JPS 1917) tree →

primary record

whatsoever

tests

manual 3; corpora 94 (Torah 51, tales 43, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 2; ratio 2.1 (Torah alone 23.8); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

In the corpora

• all in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, whatsoever was in the dry land, died.
• Now then, whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.'
• If there be laid on him a ransom, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatsoever is laid upon him.
• And thou shalt sanctify them, that they may be most holy; whatsoever toucheth them shall be holy.
• Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that is a detestable thing unto you.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «whatsoever» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.