adv. Now formal or arch. [f. WHEREIN + SOEVER.] In whatever matter, respect, etc.
1526. Tindale, 2 Cor. xi. 21. Wherin soever eny man dare be bolde … I dare be bolde also.
1552. Bk. Com. Prayer, Communion Exhortation. To examine your lyues … and wherinsoeuer ye shall perceyue your selues to haue offended,… there bewaile your owne synful lyues.
1768. Tucker, Lt. Nat. (1834), II. 456. That their own person, whereinsoever it consists, shall be made accountable for the actions performed by it in this life.
1845. Keble, in Newman’s Lett. (1891), II. 472. The impression … of its being my own fault, not theirs, whereinsoever I am found wanting.
1870. F. W. H. Myers, Poems 56.
| Whereinsoever breath may rise and die | |
| Their generations follow on. |
