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

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/whosoever/#x1)
- Whosoever gets to the second arrow, shall have the second thing--the bag. (Indian Fairy Tales) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/whosoever/#x2)
- Whosoever it be that eateth any blood, that soul shall be cut off from his people. (Torah LEV.7.27, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/whosoever/#x3)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.634/)
- [Whosoever shall make like unto that, to smell thereof, he shall be cut off from his people.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.926/)
- [And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Whosoever hath sinned against Me, him will I blot out of My book.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.978/)
- [Whosoever it be that eateth any blood, that soul shall be cut off from his people.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.162/)
- [And by these ye shall become unclean; whosoever toucheth the carcass of them shall be unclean until even.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.278/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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