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English
Etymology
From how + so + far. Compare insofar.
Preposition
howsofar
- To what degree.
1995, Australian Book Review,:But just howsofar can the complex and politically sensitive story of Nanbaree be 'translated' into simple terms and words without trivialising it?
- However far.
1900, M. A. De Wolfe Howe, edited by Jeannette Leonard Gilder and Joseph Benson Gilder, Seasons:These, howsofar I stray, shall work their spell,
And seem to bring my feet
Back to the ways remembered well,
Where with old friends, old loves,
I walked of yore.