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

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/whoso/#x1)
- Whoso beheld was filled with her love. (Celtic Fairy Tales) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/whoso/#x2)
- 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/whoso/#x3)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.223/)
- [And whoso toucheth any one that is unclean by the dead; or from whomsoever the flow of seed goeth out;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.635/)
- [Whoso is wise, let him understand these things, whoso is prudent, let him know them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/HOS.213/)
- [Whoso is wise, let him observe these things, and let them consider the mercies of the LORD.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1997/)
- [But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell securely, and shall be quiet without fear of evil.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.33/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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