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quicunque (1140-60)

The form quiqonque is a cross reference to the following entry:

quicunque (1140-60)

kiconkes,  kiconque,  kicunque,  kikonkes,  kikueunques,  kikunques,  kiqueunkes;  kikunke;  qicomque,  qiconq,  qiconqe,  qiconqes,  qiconque,  qiconques,  qicumqe,  qicumque,  qicunqe,  qicunque,  qikonqe;  quiconqe,  quiconqes,  quiconque,  quiconques,  quicouncqe,  quicounque,  quicumque,  quicunke,  quicunkes,  quicunqe,  quicunqes,  quicunque,  quicunques,  quikunque,  quiqonc,  quiqonque,  quiqunke,  quiqunqe,  quiqunqes,  quiqunques,  quiquonc,  quiquonque  (quiconqui  Foedera1 i 866 quicsique)  
  FEW:  qui 2/ii,1464b Gdf:  qui (quiconque) 6,511b GdfC: TL: quiconque 8,91 DEAF:  qui (quiconque)  DMF:  quiconque  TLF:  quiconque  OED: MED: DMLBS:  quicumque 2627b

While the etymon of this form is Latin qui + cumque, the word often seems to have been reinterpreted as qui + que­ + unc, and many variants seem to reflect this (e.g. quiqunke may also be interpreted as qui q’unke). Whereas (apparently) straightforward instances of qui que unc or qui unc have been interpreted as locutions under quique and qui1 respectively, most such attestations or spellings are listed here as variants (or deviants) of quicunque.

As with qui1 and que1, quicunque and quecunque have been separated, although semantically they overlap completely. There must have been further confusion in medieval times with quelcunques, which, again, has similar senses.

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pr.indef.

1whoever, any person who
( MS: 1155-60 )  Ceste est la feiz commune, laquele quicunkes fedeilement e fermement ne crerrad, salfs estre ne purrad (Latin: Haec est fides catholica, quam nisi quisque fideliter firmiterque crediderit, salvus esse non poterit)  Camb Ps 292.42
( 1140-60; MS: 1140-60 )  ikunques icez establissemenz as seinz humes e le nostre devisement enfreindrad [...]  Ely Arch 267.68
( MS: s.xiii2 )  Quicumque vout entrer en lur estable si enmeine lur hane (=donkey)  A-N Piety 356
( 1400; MS: s.xv1 )  Et qiconque die le contraire de ce desuis escript [...], il ne seut my bien de nous ne dit voir  Lett & Pet 114.64.55
(as an indirect object) whomever, any person who
( s.xiii1/3; MS: c.1255 )  Quiqunques l'avrat fait honur, Il lui rendra, seez aseur  Resur (P) 191
( c.1356 )  ci deit le bailif par assignement des jurés prendre une wythirname sur qiconque vienge de la dite vile ou cité  ROUGH 17
2whatever, anything which
( 1212; MS: 1212-13 )  Par tant porron savoir, ço quit, Qe quiqonc fait as sainz honour Molt le doit faire od grant poour  Dial Greg SATF 2495
quicunque vult
theol.liturgicalAthanasian Creed (which opens with the word 'Quicumque vult...')
( 1267; MS: s.xiiiex )  De les articles de la fey ke sunt cuntenuz en quicsiquevult  Lum Lais MS (E) 57r
( MS: c.1400 )  Li malade dira [...] par .ix. jours cest psalme: Quicunque vult  Five Med MSS 73.T55
quicunque il (etc.) seit
whoever may be
( 1303 )  se aucun, ou pluseur, qiconqes il fussent, voleint despointer, empeschier, ou troubler les ditz Rois  Foedera1 i 954

a.

what(so)ever, any (sort of)
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  Car ke onkes (var. (BN: s.xivin) kikonkes) hom en mond enprent nule chose resonable a fere, e le voue a Deu, il se lie a ceo fere  Ancren2 165.18
( 1295 )  les gentz de nostre roiaume [...] ou quicunque persones, clerks ou lays, de quele condition ou estate qu'il soient  Foedera1 i 822
( 1297 )  E tutes citiez [...] du reaume quiqu'il seient e de quiqunqe tenure ou franchise  Crisis 112.96
( c.1356 )  Et soleiount lez .xxxii. baronz [...] avoir la table a destre main le Roi en la sale, [...] en qicumque leu qe lez baronz dé cynk ports sount grantés od lui manger  ROUGH 27
( MS: 1419 )  Ne qe nulle puletere, n'autre quicunqes, ne mette a vente nulle manere de pulletrie qe soit corupt ou a corps del homme noun seyn  Lib Alb 465

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See also:

quecunque  qui1  quique 
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