howbeit English
Conjunction
( English Conjunctions)
(archaic) Although.
* 1749 , , Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, page 424,
- Howbeit we have not yet been able to overtake young madam, we may account it some good fortune that we have hitherto traced her course aright.
Adverb
( -)
(archaic) Be that as it may; nevertheless.
* 1607 , , Coriolanus , act 1, sc. 9,
- I will go wash;
- And when my face is fair, you shall perceive
- Whether I blush or no: howbeit , I thank you.
* 1871 , Through Death to Love, lines 7-10:
- ''Our hearts discern wild images of Death,
- ''Shadows and shoals that edge eternity.
- ''Howbeit athwart Death's imminent shade doth soar
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albeit English
Conjunction
although, despite being
- He has a very good idea, albeit a strange one.
Usage notes
Unlike although'', ''albeit cannot also introduce an independent clause. Either can introduce a noun phrase, adjectival phrase, or adverbial phrase.
Quotations
* 2001 , (Eoin Colfer), , page 92:
*: 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.
* 2007 June 17, Ellen Marrus, in the Houston Chronicle :
*: There’s an easy, albeit expensive, way to fix the national crisis in forensic crime labs.
* {{quote-news, year=2011
, date=September 24
, author=Ben Dirs
, title=Rugby World Cup 2011: England 67-3 Romania
, work=BBC Sport
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, page=
, passage=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.}}
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