howbeit

how +‎ be +‎ it

• IPA^(key): /haʊˈbiː.ɪt/
• (US)

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howbeit

1. (archaic) Although.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, “Tom Jones”, in The Novelist’s Magazine, volume III, London: Harrison and Co., published 1781, page 302:

     Howbeit we have not yet been able to overtake young Madam, we may account it ſome good fortune, that we have hitherto traced her courſe aright.

howbeit (not comparable)

1. (archaic) Be that as it may; nevertheless.
   • 1607, William Shakespeare, Coriolanus, act 1, scene 9,

     I will goe waſh : /And when my Face is faire, you ſhall perceiue / Whether I bluſh, or no : howbeit, I thanke you, / I meane to ſtride your Steed, and at all times / To vnder-creſt your good Addition, / To th’ faireneſſe of my power.

   • 1871, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Through Death to Love, lines 7-10:

     Our hearts discern wild images of Death,

     Shadows and shoals that edge eternity.

     Howbeit athwart Death's imminent shade doth soar

     One Power