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    An old, very formal word for "wherever" — meaning "in any place", "to any place", or "no matter where". You will meet it in the King James Bible, in old poems, in old legal writing, and in wills and contracts ("wheresoever situated" is still a set phrase lawyers use about property anywhere in the world). Nobody says this in normal speech today. When a modern speaker does use it, it is almost always on purpose — to sound grand, old-fashioned, or a little joking, the way someone might say "thou" for fun. The meaning is exactly the same as "wherever"; the -soever ending only adds force, like saying "anywhere at all". It works two ways, both of them just "wherever": joining two parts of a sentence ("wheresoever he goes, I follow"), and simply pointing at a place ("seek him wheresoever"). Note that it does NOT mean "whenever" or "whatever" — the where- part is fixed; it is always about place.

    無論何處、不管在哪裡(wherever 的古語、文言用法;台灣學生可想成中文的「凡……之處」這種書面語氣,法律文件裡常見)

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

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組成where + so + ever — three small words that grew together in Middle English. "where" gives the place, and "so" plus "ever" pile on the meaning "at all, no matter which", so the whole thing is "in whatever place at all".

同家族的字

  • whosoeversame -soever ending on who; "whoever at all"
  • whatsoeversame -soever ending on what; still common today in "no doubt whatsoever"
  • howsoeversame -soever ending on how
  • whensoeversame -soever ending on when
  • whereverthe same where + ever, without the middle "so" — the everyday form

原始詞典資料2 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

wheresoeverconj

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    wherever

    • While wee, returning again to embark our ſelvs for Greece, underſtood that the mightie Otanes (brother to Barzanes, ſlain by Muſidorus, in the battell of the ſix Princes) had entred upon the kingdom of Pontus, partly upon the pretences hee had 20 to the crown, but principally, becauſ hee would revenge upon him (whom hee knew wee loved) the loſs of his brother, thinking (as indeed he had cauſ) that whereſoëver wee were, hearing of his extremity, wee would com to reliev him;
    • We have said that in our judgment there was no evidence which would justify a jury in finding that the defendants, for a valuable consideration, sold the working right to the entire Heathcock range, wheresoëver it might run on lands owned by them.

wheresoeveradv

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    wherever

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。