adv. Obs. Also 5 som euer, 6 some ever. [f. som(e SUM conj. + EVER adv. Cf. WHATSOMEVER, etc.] = SOEVER 2.

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c. 1440.  Alph. Tales, 58. Whatt howr som euer þat a synner forthynkis his syn.

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1560.  Daus, trans. Sleidane’s Comm., 60 b. The same can easely destroye you also, what power somever you have. Ibid., 418 b. What action some ever any man had.

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1621.  R. Bolton, Stat. Irel., 347. In whose hands or possession somever.

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