albeit

alternative albe · alternative albethey

1. Although, despite (it) being.

   Pelosi eventually agreed to self-impose term limits, albeit with an escape clause.

   2019 March 7, Zachary B. Wolf, “8 times Democrats clashed with each other since taking power”, in CNN, archived from the original on 08 Mar 2019

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   Who are you? tell me for more certainty, / Albeit Ile ſweare that I do know your tongue.

   c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene vi], page 170

   The stranger had crossed a sacred line. He had mentioned the men’s mothers. Nothing could get him out of a beating now, even the fact that he was obviously a simpleton. Albeit a simpleton with a good vocabulary.

   2001, Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl, page 92

   There’s an easy, albeit expensive, way to fix the national crisis in forensic crime labs.

   2007 June 17, Ellen Marrus, Houston Chronicle

   Up front, skipper and open-side Lewis Moody looked almost back to full fitness, while England's set-piece was barely troubled, albeit against a Romania side showing 11 changes from that beaten by Argentina earlier in the week.

   2011 September 24, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 67 – 3 Romania”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 31 Oct 2019

   Synonyms: as much as, though, although, as, as much as, despite that, even though, howbeit