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# whosoever

pronoun

«whosoever» in the English dictionary: Early Modern English — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Early Modern English

### Meaning

Anyone at all who; whichever person. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/whosoever/#m1)

### Then and now

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://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://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/whosoever/#x3)

### Note

Today: whoever.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «whosoever» in the Early Modern English dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/whosoever/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«whosoever» in the Early Modern English dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/emode/w/whosoever.html) on Mova free.