D defs.my
Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Whatever

/wŭtˌ-ĕv'-ẽr/ · What·ev·er · IPA /wʌtˈɛv.ɚ/
01 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 m…
  1. 1.
    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.