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howsoever arch.|ˌhaʊsəʊˈɛvə(r)|
[f. how adv. + so adv. + ever adv. In the same sense the simple how so goes back to c 1200, howsomever to c 1300, and however to c 1400; howsoever appears to have been a later formation from how so or however, modelled on howsomever.]
1. In what manner soever; = however 1. (Sometimes with ellipsis.) arch.
c1430Pistell of Susan 202 (MS. Cott. Calig.) We schulle present þe pleynte, how so euer þou be payde. 1534Elyot Doctr. Princes 4 Thei thinke it better..to live in any other maner, how so ever it be. 1592Greene Upst. Courtier in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) II. 232 Howsoeuer right be, might carries away the verdict. 1741Middleton Cicero I. v. 349 Howsoever this may color, it cannot justify Cato's conduct. 1882–3Schaff Encycl. Relig. Knowl. 547 As a mere rival to Rome, Constantinople has been of invaluable service to the Christian Church, howsoever her direct influence may be considered.
†b. Notwithstanding that, albeit; = however 1 c. Obs.
1599H. Buttes Dyets drie Dinner I viij, It is a most..innocent Animall, howsoever nature..hath armed it most magnificently. 1674Playford Skill Mus. iii. 1 The Parts of Musick are in all but four, howsoever some skilful Musicians have composed songs of twenty..parts.
2. With adj. or adv.: To what extent or in what degree soever.
a. With tmesis: how{ddd}soever.
1557North Gueuara's Diall Pr. (1619) 718/1 How great a friend or neere kinsman soeuer he be to them. 1588Shakes. L.L.L. i. i. 194 How low soeuer the matter, I hope in God for high words. 1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. i. §25 The Treaty..how well soever received, and how much soever desired by the King. 1769Robertson Chas. V, III. viii. 105 [They] durst not refuse their consent, how unwilling soever to grant it. 1861Maine Anc. Law vii. (1876) 286 A right, how long soever neglected. 1874Carpenter Ment. Phys. i. vi. §2 (1879) 262 A summary expression of the entire process—how simple or how complex soever.
b. Also without tmesis.
1696Tate & Brady Ps. xc. 6 But howsoever fresh and fair. a1751Bolingbroke Fragm. (R.), Howsoever well instructed he might be in them himself and howsoever useful to government he might think them.
†3. In any case, at any rate: = however 2. Obs.
1586A. Day Eng. Secretary i. (1625) 42 Die wheresoever and whensoever, yet howsoever honourably. 1590Shakes. Mids. N. v. i. 27 Something of great constancie; But howsoeuer, strange, and admirable. a1613Overbury A Wife (1638) 79 His boy is bound to admire him howsoever. 1663Flagellum, or O. Cromwell (1672) 48 If the Scots as was hoped howsoever, would have proved honest.
†4. Nevertheless; yet: = however 3. Obs.
1602R. Dolman tr. Primaudaye's Fr. Acad. (1618) iii. lx. 777 But howsoeuer, it is certaine that pilots..doe direct [etc.]. 1631Heywood Eng. Eliz. (1641) 83 It bred in her howsoever no small amazement. 1709Strype Ann. Ref. I. xxxix. 404 But this passage, howsoever, was illy taken by some of the Oxonians. |