Etymology

whosoever

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Today it means: Whatever person or persons: emphasised or elaborated form of whoever. Full definition →

Middle English whosoever
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  1. Middle English · inherited fromwhosoever
  2. English todaywhosoever

From Middle English whosoever. By surface analysis, who + so + -ever.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.