Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Howsoever; however.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb obsolete Howsoever.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb However, in whatever manner.
  • adverb However, to whatever extent.

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Examples

  • But howso hard she might toil, she was not through with the work ere night began to fall on her, and she had no mind to go on with her digging by night.

    The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

  • Yea, and when she rated Birdalone, or girded at her, words would come forth which the maiden stored up, and by laying two and two together gat wisdom howso it were.

    The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

  • Singingemily524: just i dunno itz not what i expected addicted2dci: howso?

    zingerbabai Diary Entry zingerbabai 2006

  • But howso valiant all the others were, the kings and their men, Folker stood up bolder than any against the foes; he was a hero; he wounded many, that they fell down in their blood.

    The Fall of the Niebelungs Margaret [Translator] Armour

  • However blithely he doth practice chivalry, and howso fair of body he be, yet might he well make many a comely woman weep, should he e'er grow angry.

    The Nibelungenlied Daniel Bussier Shumway

  • And Hogni is fain of his fellow, howso the day's work end,

    The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs William Morris 1865

  • And all unmoved was her visage, howso her heart-strings yearned.

    The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs William Morris 1865

  • "But, brother," said Ralph, "howsoever churlish they may be, and howso timorous, I cannot see why they should shut their gates in our faces, a little band, when there is no foe anear them."

    The Well at the World's End: a tale William Morris 1865

  • But howso hard she might toil, she was not through with the work ere night began to fall on her, and she had no mind to go on with her digging by night.

    The Water of the Wondrous Isles William Morris 1865

  • And Hogni is fain of his fellow, howso the day's work end,

    The Story of Sigurd the Volsung William Morris 1865

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