Whatso

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Clipping of whatsoever. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, not-comparable, obsolete
Pronoun
  1. 1
    Whatever, whatsoever. obsolete

    "So she went out to fetch her needful from the Bazar and Alaeddin retired to his chamber and taking the Lamp rubbed it, when forthright appeared to him its Slave and said, "Ask, O my lord, whatso thou wantest.""

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""Come whatso / the Fates shall bring us, both alike shall share / one common welfare or one common woe.""

Etymology

From Middle English whatso, from Old English hwæt swā; equivalent to what + so.

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