adv. and pro. (once literary: now vulgar).—Whatsoever: also WHATSOMDEVER.

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  1360.  CHAUCER, The Romaunt of the Rose, 5041.

        WHATSOMEVER woo they fele
They wol not pleyne, but concele.

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  14[?].  Babees Book [E.E.T.S.], 45.

        Doughtir, loke þat þou be waare, WHAT-SUMEUERE þee bitide,
Mak not þin husbonde poore with spendinge ne with pride.

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