adv., conj. Obs. exc. dial. [f. WHERE + SOMEVER.]

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  1.  = WHEREVER 2, 2 b.

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a. 1300.  Cursor M., 8931. Bot quar-sum-euer þis tre lai, Godd sceud þar-on his mightes ai.

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1452.  Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot., 131/1. All and sindri my landis … within the realme of Scotland quharesumever.

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1490.  Caxton, Eneydos, xvi. 62. Hys grete wynges … that bare hym … hyghe and lowe, where someuere he wolde be.

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c. 1500.  Melusine, xxxvi. 275. And take there your lodgys tofore them wheresomeuer it playse you.

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1502.  Atkynson, trans. De Imitatione, II. i. (1893), 179. Wheresomeuer we be in this worlde, we be as pylgryms and straungers.

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1619.  J. Williams, Serm. Apparell (1620), 30. The soules house is there, wheresomeuer it worketh.

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  2.  = WHEREVER 3.

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1470–85.  Malory, Arthur, VII. vi. 221. Where someuer ye goo I wylle folowe you.

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1501.  in Lett. Rich. III. & Hen. VII. (Rolls), I. 136. Wheresomever it shuld please the king to sende theym.

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1592.  Greene, Alphonsus, I. ii. Arragon, Who … Doth play the diuell where some ere he comes.

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  3.  = WHEREVER 4.

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1477.  Earl Rivers (Caxton), Dictes, 21. Whersomeuer one dye the weye to the other worlde is alle like.

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c. 1489.  Caxton, Sonnes of Aymon, xxiv. 533. Mawgys habandouned never reynawd whersomnever he went.

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1599.  Shaks., Hen. V., II. iii. 7. Would I were with him, wheresomere hee is.

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