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Grammar : Pron

Spell : hwuht-ev-er, hwot-, hwuh t-, wuht-, wot-, wuh t-

Phonetic Transcription : ʰwʌtˈɛv ər, ʰwɒt-, ʰwət-, wʌt-, wɒt-, wət-

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Origin : c.1300, from what + ever. Variant form whatsoever is attested earlier.

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Example sentences :

So we think, whatever you think: and whose thoughts are to be preferred?
Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson

Whatever other failings might be his, there was no great cowardice in Hank Rainer.
Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand

And whatever our views of its cause, we can agree that children at risk are not at fault.
Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various

Your eye searches for whatever may remind you of the living world.
Extract from : « The Haunted Mind (From "Twice Told Tales") » by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The desire of man's heart does for him whatever I seem to do.
Extract from : « The Intelligence Office (From "Mosses From An Old Manse") » by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Whatever it was that he was about to say, Andrew was never to hear it.
Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand

My point is that whatever there may be to struggle with there is nothing to be afraid of.
Extract from : « The Conquest of Fear » by Basil King

Whatever explanation of our sufferings and failures there may be we must not shuffle them off on God.
Extract from : « The Conquest of Fear » by Basil King

In 1642 Queen Henrietta Maria landed on whatever quay then existed.
Extract from : « Yorkshire Painted And Described » by Gordon Home

But what troubled her most of all was that he should be so careless about the wrong he had done, whatever it was.
Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald

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