"whensoever" meaning in English

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      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "whenne-soever"
      },
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "when so evyr"
      },
      "expansion": "when so evyr",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "when",
        "3": "so",
        "4": "ever"
      },
      "expansion": "By surface analysis, when + so + ever",
      "name": "surf"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English quen-so-ever, wensoever, whanne so evere, whan-so-ever, whan-so-evere, whenne-soever, when so evyr. By surface analysis, when + so + ever.",
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      "expansion": "whensoever (not comparable)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
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        {
          "ref": "1602, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, act V scene 2",
          "text": "Now or whensoever, provided I be so able as now.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1672, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica",
          "text": "Again, whereas men affirm they perceive an addition of ponderosity in dead bodies, comparing them usually unto blocks and stones, whensoever they lift or carry them; this accessional preponderancy is rather in appearance than reality.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1840, Lewis Rose, chapter I, in An Humble Attempt to Put an End to the Present Divisions in the Church of Scotland, and to Promote Her Usefulness. […], Glasgow: George Gallie, →OCLC, page 8",
          "text": "But we mean whensoever her majesty or any other patron do present any person unto a benefice, that the person presented shall be tried and examined by the judgment of learned men of the church; […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "whenever; at any time at all"
      ],
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        {
          "word": "whensomever"
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        {
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            "obsolete"
          ],
          "word": "whensoëver"
        }
      ],
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        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "whensoever"
}

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      },
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        "2": "whanne so evere"
      },
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    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "whenne-soever"
      },
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "when so evyr"
      },
      "expansion": "when so evyr",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "when",
        "3": "so",
        "4": "ever"
      },
      "expansion": "By surface analysis, when + so + ever",
      "name": "surf"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English quen-so-ever, wensoever, whanne so evere, whan-so-ever, whan-so-evere, whenne-soever, when so evyr. By surface analysis, when + so + ever.",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
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          "text": "Now or whensoever, provided I be so able as now.",
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        {
          "ref": "1672, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica",
          "text": "Again, whereas men affirm they perceive an addition of ponderosity in dead bodies, comparing them usually unto blocks and stones, whensoever they lift or carry them; this accessional preponderancy is rather in appearance than reality.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
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          "text": "But we mean whensoever her majesty or any other patron do present any person unto a benefice, that the person presented shall be tried and examined by the judgment of learned men of the church; […]",
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        "whenever; at any time at all"
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      "word": "whensoëver"
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  ],
  "word": "whensoever"
}