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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/whatsoever/#m1)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/whatsoever/#x1)
- The Priest hasn't got anything whatsoever to do with it." (Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/whatsoever/#x2)
- Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that is a detestable thing unto you. (Torah LEV.11.12, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/whatsoever/#x3)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.193/)
- [Now then, whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.951/)
- [If there be laid on him a ransom, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatsoever is laid upon him.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.609/)
- [And thou shalt sanctify them, that they may be most holy; whatsoever toucheth them shall be holy.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.917/)
- [Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that is a detestable thing unto you.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.266/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «whatsoever» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/whatsoever/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.