What*ev"er (?), pron. Anything soever which; the thing or things of any kind; being this or
that; of one
nature or another; one thing or another; anything that may be; all that; the
whole that; all particulars that; -- used both substantively and adjectively.
Whatever fortune stays from his word.
Shak. Whatever
Earth, all-bearing mother,
yields. Milton. Whatever be its intrinsic value. J. H. Newman. &fist; Whatever often follows a noun, being
used elliptically. "There being no room for any physical discovery whatever" [sc. it may be] . Whately.
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