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from The Century Dictionary.

  • The objective case of whoso.

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Examples

  • But the Trojans were dying, first for their fatherland, fairest fame to win; whomso the sword laid low, all these found friends to bear their bodies home and were laid to rest in the bosom of their native land, their funeral rites all duly paid by duteous hands.

    The Trojan Women 2008

  • So he raised his eyes heavenwards and said, Glory to Thee, O Lord, O Creator and Provider, who providest whomso Thou wilt without count or stint!

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • But the Trojans were dying, first for their fatherland, fairest fame to win; whomso the sword laid low, all these found friends to bear their bodies home and were laid to rest in the bosom of their native land, their funeral rites all duly paid by duteous hands.

    The Trojan Women 2008

  • For from the day that they did land upon Scamander's strand, their doom began, not for loss of stolen frontier nor yet for fatherland with frowning towers; whomso Ares slew, those never saw their babes again, nor were they shrouded for the tomb by hand of wife, but in a foreign land they lie.

    The Trojan Women 2008

  • He chooseth of them whomso He please to make him His viceroy and viceregent over

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • For from the day that they did land upon Scamander's strand, their doom began, not for loss of stolen frontier nor yet for fatherland with frowning towers; whomso Ares slew, those never saw their babes again, nor were they shrouded for the tomb by hand of wife, but in a foreign land they lie.

    The Trojan Women 2008

  • As for the kingdom, Allah the Most High shall send to it whomso He chooseth, for that I have no longer a desire for the kingship.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • NOW Cyllenian Hermes called forth from the halls the souls of the wooers, and he held in his hand his wand that is fair and golden, wherewith he lulls the eyes of men, of whomso he will, while others again he even wakens out of sleep.

    Book XXIV Homer 1909

  • And he took the wand wherewith he lulls the eyes of whomso he will, while others again he even wakes from out of sleep.

    Book V Homer 1909

  • Then wise Telemachus answered her, saying: ‘My mother, as for the bow, no Achaean is mightier than I to give or to deny it to whomso I will, neither as many as are lords in rocky Ithaca nor in the isles on the side of Elis, the pastureland of horses.

    Book XXI Homer 1909

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