whoso

«whoso» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: whoever — 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

whoever

part of speech

pronoun

meaning for a pupil

Anyone who; whichever person. tree →

how it differs from today

Today it is an old form of "whoever"; the sense is the same.

examples

• Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God made He man. (Torah GEN.9.6, JPS 1917) tree →
• Whoso beheld was filled with her love. (Celtic Fairy Tales) tree →
• And whoso toucheth any one that is unclean by the dead; or from whomsoever the flow of seed goeth out; (Torah LEV.22.4, JPS 1917) tree →

tests

manual 3; corpora 8 (Torah 6, tales 2, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.9 (Torah alone 14.0); Wiktionary no archaic label

In the corpora

• Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God made He man.
• And whoso toucheth any one that is unclean by the dead; or from whomsoever the flow of seed goeth out;
• Whoso is wise, let him understand these things, whoso is prudent, let him know them.
• Whoso is wise, let him observe these things, and let them consider the mercies of the LORD.
• But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell securely, and shall be quiet without fear of evil.'

Trees and pragmatics

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