soever
pronunciation
How to pronounce soever in British English:
UK [səʊ'evə]
How to pronounce soever in American English:
US [soʊ'evə]
Word Origin
- soever (adv.)
- 1550s, from so + ever. "A word generally used in composition to extend or render indefinite the sense of such words as who, what, where, when, how, etc. ...." [Century Dictionary].
Example
- 1. I will accept whose soever help is offered .
- 2. In my opinion , nothing can be place of english , soever we will do anything .
- 3. And he said unto them , in what place soever ye enter into an house , there abide till ye depart from that place .
- 4. In the woods too , a man casts off his years , as the snake his slough , and at what period soever of life , is always a child .
- 5. But these things , how indifferent soever they be in common uses , when they come to be annexed unto divine worship , without divine authority , they are as abominable to god as the sacrifice of a dog .