单词 | how…soever |
释义 | > as lemmashow…soever a. With tmesis: how…soever. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > degree or relative amount of a quality, action, etc. > [adverb] > to what extent > soever how…soever1557 howsoever1696 1557 T. North tr. A. de Guevara Diall Princes (1619) 718/1 How great a friend or neere kinsman soeuer he be to them. 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost i. i. 189 How low so euer the matter, I hope in God for high words. View more context for this quotation 1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. i. 14 The Treaty..how well soever received, and how much soever desired by the King. 1769 W. Robertson Hist. Charles V III. viii. 105 [They] durst not refuse their consent, how unwilling soever to grant it. 1861 H. S. Maine Anc. Law vii. 286 A right, how long soever neglected. 1874 W. B. Carpenter Princ. Mental Physiol. (1879) i. vi. §2 262 A summary expression of the entire process—how simple or how complex soever. < as lemmas |
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