"soever" meaning in English

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      "expansion": "so + ever",
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  "etymology_text": "so + ever",
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      "expansion": "soever (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adv"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1669, John Owen, A Practical Exposition on the 130th Psalm",
          "text": "How long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1922, Michael Arlen, “1/5/1”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days",
          "text": "And in the meanwhile, Society shivered a little feverishly, filled now with the scions of those who had come over with the Jewish and American Conquests. Escutcheons were becoming valueless, how sinister soever the blots and clots upon them.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "For quotations using this term, see Citations:soever."
        }
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        "In any fashion, of any kind; used for emphasis after words such as how, what, which etc."
      ],
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          "how",
          "how"
        ],
        [
          "what",
          "what"
        ],
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          "which",
          "which"
        ]
      ],
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        "(archaic) In any fashion, of any kind; used for emphasis after words such as how, what, which etc."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "howsoever"
        },
        {
          "word": "whatsoever"
        },
        {
          "word": "whencesoever"
        },
        {
          "word": "whensoever"
        },
        {
          "word": "wheresoever"
        },
        {
          "word": "whethersoever"
        },
        {
          "word": "whichsoever"
        },
        {
          "word": "whithersoever"
        },
        {
          "word": "whosoever"
        },
        {
          "word": "whomsoever"
        },
        {
          "word": "whosesoever"
        },
        {
          "word": "whysoever"
        }
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            "obsolete"
          ],
          "word": "somever"
        }
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        "archaic",
        "not-comparable"
      ],
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        {
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "kakǎvto i da e",
          "sense": "in any fashion, of any kind",
          "word": "какъвто и да е"
        }
      ]
    }
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      "tags": [
        "UK"
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    },
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      "ipa": "/soʊˈɛvɚ/",
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  "word": "soever"
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "so + ever",
  "head_templates": [
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      "name": "en-adv"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
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    {
      "word": "howsoever"
    },
    {
      "word": "whatsoever"
    },
    {
      "word": "whencesoever"
    },
    {
      "word": "whensoever"
    },
    {
      "word": "wheresoever"
    },
    {
      "word": "whethersoever"
    },
    {
      "word": "whichsoever"
    },
    {
      "word": "whithersoever"
    },
    {
      "word": "whosoever"
    },
    {
      "word": "whomsoever"
    },
    {
      "word": "whosesoever"
    },
    {
      "word": "whysoever"
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        "English terms with audio links",
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        "English uncomparable adverbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
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          "ref": "1669, John Owen, A Practical Exposition on the 130th Psalm",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1922, Michael Arlen, “1/5/1”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days",
          "text": "And in the meanwhile, Society shivered a little feverishly, filled now with the scions of those who had come over with the Jewish and American Conquests. Escutcheons were becoming valueless, how sinister soever the blots and clots upon them.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "For quotations using this term, see Citations:soever."
        }
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        "In any fashion, of any kind; used for emphasis after words such as how, what, which etc."
      ],
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        [
          "how",
          "how"
        ],
        [
          "what",
          "what"
        ],
        [
          "which",
          "which"
        ]
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        "(archaic) In any fashion, of any kind; used for emphasis after words such as how, what, which etc."
      ],
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        "not-comparable"
      ]
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    },
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      "word": "somever"
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "kakǎvto i da e",
      "sense": "in any fashion, of any kind",
      "word": "какъвто и да е"
    }
  ],
  "word": "soever"
}