<span class="searchmatch">howbe</span> (not comparable) Alternative form of howbeit. 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe...
→OCLC: Siker thou speak'st like a lewd sorrel, Of heaven, to deemen so: <span class="searchmatch">Howbe</span> I am but rude and borrel, Yet nearer ways I know. Lorber Diminutive of Middle...
WOTD – 10 May 2009 <span class="searchmatch">howbe</span> Univerbation of how + be + it, literally “however it [may] be”. IPA(key): /haʊˈbiː.ɪt/ howbeit (archaic) Although. Synonyms:...