whosoever

«whosoever» 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 at all who; whichever person. tree →

how it differs from today

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

examples

• Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death. (Torah EXO.22.19, JPS 1917) tree →
• Whosoever gets to the second arrow, shall have the second thing--the bag. (Indian Fairy Tales) tree →
• Whosoever it be that eateth any blood, that soul shall be cut off from his people. (Torah LEV.7.27, JPS 1917) tree →

tests

manual 3; corpora 63 (Torah 46, tales 17, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 7.1 (Torah alone 107.3); Wiktionary no archaic label

In the corpora

• (22-18) Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death.
• Whosoever shall make like unto that, to smell thereof, he shall be cut off from his people.'
• And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Whosoever hath sinned against Me, him will I blot out of My book.
• Whosoever it be that eateth any blood, that soul shall be cut off from his people.
• And by these ye shall become unclean; whosoever toucheth the carcass of them shall be unclean until even.

Trees and pragmatics

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