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/səʊˈɛvə/ · adverb
(archaic) In any fashion, of any kind; used for emphasis after words such as how, what, which etc..
For quotations using this term, see Citations:soever.
How long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law.
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.
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.
[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[.]
Use soever when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Soever means (archaic) In any fashion, of any kind; used for emphasis after words such as how, what, which etc..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
For quotations using this term, see Citations:soever.
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