howbe

English

Adverb

howbe (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of howbeit.
   • 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], →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.