soeverとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From so +‎ ever.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /səʊˈɛvə/
• (米国発音) IPA: /soʊˈɛvɚ/

副詞

soever (not comparable)

1. (archaic) In any fashion, of any kind; used for emphasis after words such as how, what, which etc.
   • 1669, John Owen, A Practical Exposition on the 130th Psalm:

     How long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law.

   • 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Author by an Extraordinary Stratagem Prevents an Invasion. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part I (A Voyage to Lilliput), page 91:

     For, by the fundamental Laws of the Realm, it is Capital in any Perſon, of what Quality ſoever, to make water within the Precincts of the Palace.

   • 1922, Michael Arlen, “1/5/1”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days‎:

     And in the meanwhile, Society shivered a little feverishly, filled now with the scions of those who had come over with the Jewish and American Conquests. Escutcheons were becoming valueless, how sinister soever the blots and clots upon them.

   • 1922, Eleanour Sinclair Rohde, The Old English Herbals, London: Longmans, Green and Co., page 16:

     [T]hen go in silence and, though anything soever of an awful sort or man meet thee, say not thou to him any word ere thou come to the wort which on the evening before thou markedst[.]

   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:soever.

関連する語

アナグラム

• ever so, ever-so-, everso