Meanings
adverbhowbe (not comparable)
- alternativenot comparableAlternative form of howbeit.
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.
1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], →OCLC
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