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howbeit

[hou-bee-it] Origin

how·be·it

[hou-bee-it]
adverb
1.
Archaic. nevertheless.
conjunction
2.
Obsolete. although.

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a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English how be it however it may be; parallel to albeit
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howbeit (haʊˈbiːɪt)
 
sentence connector
1.  however
 
conj
2.  (subordinating) though; although

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howbeit
late 14c., contraction of how be it.
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