pron. arch., chiefly poet. (In early use as two words.) [Early ME. swa hwam swa swa (quot. a. 1154 s.v. WHOM 6): see WHOM and SO adv. 17 d.] = next.
c. 1200. Vices & Virtues, 85. Hwam swo ðin wille was te senden ðis loc to ofrien, he was ȝeherd of his niede.
c. 1205. Lay., 18384. He mai wham swa he wule wurðcipe bitachen.
a. 1225. Ancr. R., 184. Ne bet he nenne mon bute hwamso he luueð.
13[?]. Cursor M., 8379 (Gött.). Giue it to quham-so ȝe will. Ibid. (c. 1375), 4007 (Fairf.). Quam so god helpis.
1596. Spenser, F. Q., V. xii. 36. Her cursed tongue … Appear’d like Aspis sting, that closely kils, Or cruelly does wound whom so she wils.
1632. Lithgow, Trav., IV. 169. His Daughters … are giuen in marriage to any Bassa, whom so they affect.
1837. Carlyle, Fr. Rev., III. V. v. They say to whom so they meet, Do; and he must do it.
a. 1850. Rossetti, Dante & Circle, I. (1874), 61. Whomso thou meetest, say thou this to each.
