howbe

English

Adverb

howbe (not comparable)

  1. Alternative form of howbeit.
    • 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC; republished as The Shepheardes Calender […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], 1586, →OCLC:
      Siker thou speak'st like a lewd sorrel,
      Of heaven to deemen so,
      Howbe I am but rude and borrel,
      Yet nearer ways I know.
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