"whyever" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From why + ever.",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "however"
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "howsoever"
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "whatever"
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "whatsoever"
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      "word": "whenever"
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "whensoever"
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "wheresoever"
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "wherever"
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "whoever"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "whomever"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "whomsoever"
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "whosoever"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "whysoever"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "why on Earth"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "why in God's name"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "why oh why"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "why in Sam Hill"
    }
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          "_dis": "50 17 33",
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          "_dis": "83 5 12",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Whyever would someone do that?",
          "type": "example"
        }
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        "Why ever: an emphatic form of why."
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(interrogative) Why ever: an emphatic form of why."
      ],
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    },
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "You can use it whenever you want and whyever you want.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1918, Wilson Follett, The Modern Novel: A Study of the Purpose and the Meaning of Fiction, page 79:",
          "text": "Whatever we do, and whyever we do it, does not every motive originate in self, and does not every act proceed out of the individual's instinct for self-fulfilment ?",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1975, Steven Polgar, Population, Ecology, and Social Evolution, page 74:",
          "text": "Whyever they began, there was no perceptible wolf at their door.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006>David Weber, Linda Evans, Hell's Gate, (Please provide the book title or journal name):",
          "text": "\"And whyever they were doing it, they were the ones responsible for what happened to her and all of the rest of my friends in the first place.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "For whatever reason."
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(uncommon) For whatever reason."
      ],
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        {
          "_dis1": "3 91 6",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "for whatever reason",
          "word": "perché mai"
        }
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        {
          "text": "I don't care what you want. Whyever you're here, please go away.",
          "type": "example"
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        "Regardless of the reason (why)."
      ],
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        "(uncommon) Regardless of the reason (why)."
      ],
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  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/waɪˈɛvɚ/",
      "note": "wine–whine merger",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ʍaɪˈɛvɚ/",
      "note": "without the wine–whine merger",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
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    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛvə(ɹ)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "whyever"
}

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  "etymology_text": "From why + ever.",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
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      "word": "however"
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    {
      "word": "howsoever"
    },
    {
      "word": "whatever"
    },
    {
      "word": "whatsoever"
    },
    {
      "word": "whenever"
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    {
      "word": "whensoever"
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    {
      "word": "wheresoever"
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    {
      "word": "wherever"
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    {
      "word": "whichever"
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    {
      "word": "whoever"
    },
    {
      "word": "whomever"
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    {
      "word": "whomsoever"
    },
    {
      "word": "whosoever"
    },
    {
      "word": "whysoever"
    },
    {
      "word": "why on Earth"
    },
    {
      "word": "why in God's name"
    },
    {
      "word": "why oh why"
    },
    {
      "word": "why in Sam Hill"
    }
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        {
          "text": "Whyever would someone do that?",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Why ever: an emphatic form of why."
      ],
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          "ever",
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        "(interrogative) Why ever: an emphatic form of why."
      ],
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        {
          "text": "You can use it whenever you want and whyever you want.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1918, Wilson Follett, The Modern Novel: A Study of the Purpose and the Meaning of Fiction, page 79:",
          "text": "Whatever we do, and whyever we do it, does not every motive originate in self, and does not every act proceed out of the individual's instinct for self-fulfilment ?",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1975, Steven Polgar, Population, Ecology, and Social Evolution, page 74:",
          "text": "Whyever they began, there was no perceptible wolf at their door.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006>David Weber, Linda Evans, Hell's Gate, (Please provide the book title or journal name):",
          "text": "\"And whyever they were doing it, they were the ones responsible for what happened to her and all of the rest of my friends in the first place.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "For whatever reason."
      ],
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        "(uncommon) For whatever reason."
      ],
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        {
          "text": "I don't care what you want. Whyever you're here, please go away.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Regardless of the reason (why)."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(uncommon) Regardless of the reason (why)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable",
        "uncommon"
      ]
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  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/waɪˈɛvɚ/",
      "note": "wine–whine merger",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ʍaɪˈɛvɚ/",
      "note": "without the wine–whine merger",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
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      "rhymes": "-ɛvə(ɹ)"
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "for whatever reason",
      "word": "perché mai"
    }
  ],
  "word": "whyever"
}