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Whatsoever vs Whosoever - What's the difference?

whatsoever | whosoever |

As pronouns the difference between whatsoever and whosoever

is that whatsoever is whatever while whosoever is whichever person; whoever.

As an adjective whatsoever

is whatever.

whatsoever

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Whatever.
  • * (John Milton)
  • In whatsoever shape he lurk.
  • * The Holy Bible, Genesis xxxi. 16
  • Whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.
  • In any way; at all.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , passage=In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever . He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned.}}

    Pronoun

    (English Pronouns)
  • (obsolete) whatever
  • * Bible, Genesis xxxi. 16
  • Whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.
  • * (Francis Bacon)
  • I must require you to use diligence in presenting especially those purloinings and imbezlements, which are of plate, vessel, or whatsoever within the King's house.

    Usage notes

    The word is sometimes divided by tmesis : “What things soever ye desire”. (Mark xi. 24) (Webster 1913)

    whosoever

    English

    Pronoun

    (en-pron)
  • whichever person; whoever
  • * 1597 — v 3
  • If thou do pardon, whosoever pray,
    More sins for this forgiveness prosper may.
  • * 1611 — 6:47
  • *:"Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will shew you to whom he is like"
  • * 18?? — , source?
  • This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.

    Anagrams

    * howsoever