whyever
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (America) IPA: /waɪˈɛvɚ/, /ʍaɪˈɛvɚ/
whyever (not comparable)
- An emphatic form of why.
- Whyever would someone do that?
- For whatever reason.
- 1918, Wilson Follett, The Modern Novel: A Study of the Purpose and the Meaning of Fiction, page 79
- Whatever we do, and whyever we do it, does not every motive originate in self, and does not every act proceed out of the individual's instinct for self-fulfilment ?
- 1975, Steven Polgar, Population, Ecology, and Social Evolution, page 74
- Whyever they began, there was no perceptible wolf at their door.
- 2006, David Weber, Linda Evans, Hell's Gate
- "And whyever they were doing it, they were the ones responsible for what happened to her and all of the rest of my friends in the first place."
- 1918, Wilson Follett, The Modern Novel: A Study of the Purpose and the Meaning of Fiction, page 79
- however
- howsoever
- whatever
- whatsoever
- whenever
- whensoever
- wherever
- wheresoever
- whichever
- whoever
- whomever
- whomsoever
- whosoever
- wherever
- wheresoever
- whysoever
- Italian: perché mai
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