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  1. pronoun Whatever.
  2. adjective Whatever: no power whatsoever.

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  • Had he attempted to move or shout or make a noise of any kind whatsoever, his life would have been instantly taken, and his body thrown into the rushing stream. —  The Shellback's Progress In the Nineteenth Century
  • There could be no human life whatsoever, and still less a progressive life, were not the great mass of men content to remain steadily in their places, and so form parts of a stable structure. —  The Moral Economy
  • You consider somewhat, before you send your boy to school, what kind of a man the master is;--whatsoever kind of a man he is, you at least give him full authority over your son, and show some respect for him yourself;--if he comes to dine with you, you do not put him at a side table; you know, also, that at his college, your child's immediate tutor will be under the direction of some still higher tutor, for whom you have absolute reverence. —  Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American
  • But now (whatsoever is the cause it hath quite grown out of use, and that other so generally prevailed, that I dare not presume to set this afoot again; albeit to tell you my opinion) I am persuaded that the lack hereof, well considered, will be found a great blemish to our tongue. —  English Past and Present
  • He was a man not to be corrupted by any offering whatsoever, and indeed a saint. —  Jerome Cardan A Biographical Study
 

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  1. from Middle English whatsoever; from what + so + ever. Cf. what so and whatsomever.
 

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/hwɑtsəˈɛvər/
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