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English
Adverb
howbe (not comparable)
- 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.