somever

English

Etymology

From Middle English som ever, equivalent to som +‎ ever.

Adverb

somever (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Synonym of soever.
   • 1560 October 5 (Gregorian calendar), [Johannes] Sleidanus, translated by Ihon Daus, “The Argument of the Fyfth Booke”, in A Famouse Cronicle of Oure Time, Called Sleidanes Commentaries, Concerning the State of Religion and Common Wealth, during the Raigne of the Emperour Charles the Fift, […], London: […] Ihon Daye, for Abraham Veale, and Nicholas England, →OCLC, 5th book ([…]), folio lx, verso:

     But you know certenly that the name of God may not be taken in vayne, noꝛ vntrewlye: foꝛ God thꝛeateneth a punyſhemente, whiche remayneth dewe vnto you alſo, if you handle not this buſines ryghtly he that dꝛowned the whole woꝛlde with a flud, he that ſwallowed vp Sodome with a fyꝛie ſhoure, the ſame can eaſely deſtroye you alſo, what power ſomeuer you haue.

   • 1561 August 19 (Gregorian calendar), Thomas Randolph, “No. V. (Vol. I. p. 252.) A letter of Thomas Randolph, the English resident, to the right worshipful Sir William Cecil, knt. principal secretary to the queen’s majesty.”, in William Robertson, The History of Scotland during the Reigns of Queen Mary and of King James VI. till His Accession to the Crown of England. […], 4th edition, volume II, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], published 1761, →OCLC, Appendix, page 327:

     By ſuch letters as you have laſt received, your honour ſomewhat underſtandeth of Mr. Knox himſelf, and alſo of others, what is determined, he himſelf to abide the uttermoſt, and other never to leave him until God have taken his life, and thus together with what comfort ſomever it will pleaſe you to give him by your letters, that the queen’s majeſty doth not utterly condemn him, or at the leaſt in that point, that he is ſo ſore charged with by his own queen, that her majeſty will not allow her doing.

     The spelling has been modernized.

   • 1621, “An Act for the Erection of Free Scholes”, in Rich[ard] Bolton, compiler, The Statutes of Ireland, Beginning the Third Yere of K. Edward the Second, […], Dublin: […] [T]he Socitetie of Stationers, […], →OCLC, page 347:

     And bee it further enacted by the authoꝛitie afoꝛeſaid, that all Churches, Parſonages, Vicarages, and other Eccleſiaſticall liuings that haue come by any title, meane oꝛ conueyance to the poſſeſſion and ſeiſen of the Queenes Maieſtie, oꝛ any of her moſt noble pꝛogenitours ſhall bee charged to this payement and contribution in whoſe hands oꝛ poſſeſſion ſomeuer the ſame are oꝛ ſhall come.

   • 1624 July 6 (Gregorian calendar), “[124.] Ibid. [Whitehall, 26 June]”, in W[illiam] L[awson] Grant, James Munro, Almeric W[illiam] FitzRoy, editors, Acts of the Privy Council of England, Colonial Series, volume I (A.D. 1613-1680), Hereford, Herefordshire: […] [F]or His Majesty’s Stationery Office, by Anthony Brothers, Limited, published 1908, →OCLC, pages 78–79:

     The Commissioners lately appointed by his Majestie and the lordes for the direction of the Virginia busines did this daie order that all the Stocke, Arrerages, dues upon Accomptes allowed or not allowed, Merchandize, Proffittes of landes or other emolumentes whatsomeuer belonging to the Publike of the late Corporation of Virginia into whose handes someuer they shall come, shalbe reserued and accompted for to his Majestie and to the Commissioners appointed by him for the vse of the Corporation, which his Majesty intendeth of newe to erect for the Plantation of Virginia.

Derived terms

• howsomever
• whatsomever
• whensomever
• wheresomever
• whomsomever
• whosomever