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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
whatsoever
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
none at all/none whatsoever
▪ ‘Was there any mail?’ ‘No, none at all.’
nothing whatsoever
▪ My staff had nothing whatsoever to do with this.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I have no reason whatsoever to doubt what he says.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But then you realise that there's no room whatsoever for larking about and enjoying yourself.
▪ In fact, most of the companies described in the article have virtually no turnover whatsoever.
▪ Most studies find no relationship whatsoever.
▪ My position on this important matter has nothing whatsoever to do with the rational, of course.
▪ Nor, I contend, does rationalism have anything whatsoever to do with those who see saucers in the sky.
▪ The attack may occur with no preceding tension whatsoever.
▪ They have little concept whatsoever of creative thinking, of tossing around ideas to get the one that will work.
▪ Vincenzo Giuliani felt no need whatsoever to pander to that illusion.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Whatsoever

Whatsoever \What`so*ev"er\, pron. & a. Whatever. ``In whatsoever shape he lurk.''
--Milton.

Whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.
--Gen. xxxi. 16.

Note: The word is sometimes divided by tmesis. ``What things soever ye desire.''
--Mark xi. 24.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
whatsoever

"of whatever nature, kind, or sort," mid-13c., quuat-so-euere, from whatso "whatever" (c.1200; see what), an emphatic referring to things, + ever. A double intensive of what. As an adjective from mid-15c.

Wiktionary
whatsoever

a. 1 whatever. 2 In any way; at all. pron. (context obsolete English) whatever

WordNet
whatsoever

adj. one or some or every or all without specification; "give me any peaches you don't want"; "not any milk is left"; "any child would know that"; "pick any card"; "any day now"; "cars can be rented at almost any airport"; "at twilight or any other time"; "beyond any doubt"; "need any help we can get"; "give me whatever peaches you don't want"; "no milk whatsoever is left" [syn: any(a), whatever]

Usage examples of "whatsoever".

For my part, I shall take all immaginable care that the Fathers who preach the Holy Gospell to those Indians over whom I have power bee not in the least ill treated, and upon that very accompt have sent for one of each nation to come to me, and then those beastly crimes you reproove shall be checked severely, and all my endevours used to surpress their filthy drunkennesse, disorders, debauches, warring, and quarrels, and whatsoever doth obstruct the growth and enlargement of the Christian faith amongst those people.

Surely, if we read the history of this Cause aright, we cannot fail to observe that the East has already witnessed not a few of its sons, of wider experience, of a higher standing, of a greater influence, apostatize their faith, find themselves to their utter consternation lose whatsoever talent they possessed, recede swiftly into the shadows of oblivion and be heard of no more.

Beauty, courtesy, and knowledge, and whatsoever appertaining to goodness a lady can have, has Death, who has destroyed all good in the person of my lady the empress, snatched from us and cheated us of.

He sent a note to Lee Percy requesting him to stop by and see him in an hour, and told his annunciator that for no reason whatsoever was he to be disturbed for the next sixty minutes.

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Chief had spoken soft words of thee, and passed the order that thou wert Begum, that whatsoever thou desired was to be.

What was most astonishing to Armstrong was that Blitzkrieg appeared to have no notion whatsoever that his score for the front nine was in any way questionable.

Kadara and Brede dispatched the three bandits as if they had no skills whatsoever.

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With no coyness whatsoever, Marcie excused herself to change into something more comfortable.

It also followed that neither Ismail nor Mustapha could count on any support whatsoever from the Christians of Marga, an essential point if the attack were to succeed at once, rather than drag out in a long siege that would give the French party in Constantinople time to intervene.

He was both young and very rich, and a mighty man among his townsmen, and well had he learned that ginger is hot in the mouth, and though he had come forth to the war for the increasing of his fame, he had no will to die among the Markmen, either for the sake of the city of Rome, or of any folk whatsoever, but was liefer to live for his own sake.

There again was no long tale to tell of, for Hiarandi was just winning the gate, and the wall was cleared of the Roman shot-fighters, and the Markmen were standing on the top thereof, and casting down on the Romans spears and baulks of wood and whatsoever would fly.

Thus it is that whatsoever be their utterance, whether it pertain to the realm of Divinity, Lordship, Prophethood, Messengership, Guardianship, Apostelship or Servitude, all is true, beyond the shadow of a doubt.