Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Dialectal corruptions of howsoever. Also written howsnmdever.

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  • conjunction archaic however

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Examples

  • One of the ideas of the economics ist alles boys (economics is all boys) has been that corporate giganticism, whether achieved by mergers, buyouts, internal growth or howsomever, represents a desirable triumph of .... something.

    The Bigger the Company, the More Disastrous the Mistake. 2008

  • One of the ideas of the economics ist alles boys (economics is all boys) has been that corporate giganticism, whether achieved by mergers, buyouts, internal growth or howsomever, represents a desirable triumph of .... something.

    The Bigger The Company, The More Disastrous The Mistake 2008

  • But this, and the death of his dear young lady, is a grief, he declares, that he shall never claw off, were he to love to the age of Matthew Salem; althoff, and howsomever, he is sure, that he shall not live a month to an end: being strangely pined, and his stomach nothing like what it was; and Mrs. Betty being also (now she has got his love) very cross and slighting.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • Be pleased, howsomever, if it like your Honner, not to call me honest Joseph, so often.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • Ever since he had lived at the Lodge of his own he looked down, howsomever, upon poor old Thady, and was grown quite a great gentleman, and had none of his relations near him; no wonder he was no kinder to poor Sir Condy than to his own kith or kin. 18 In the spring it was the villain that got the list of the debts from him brought down the custodiam, Sir

    Castle Rackrent 2006

  • A very fine young chap I call him, for to try to do it still, howsomever his mind might be wandering.

    Erema Richard Doddridge 2004

  • But howsomever, steer your course clear of all such brimstone b — s.

    The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle 2004

  • But, howsomever, there is no time lost, and I hope this affair will be transacted to the satisfaction of us both.

    The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle 2004

  • But howsomever, we shall leave that reef in the fore top-sail. —

    The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves 2004

  • But howsomever, in regard to this here affair, we need not be so scrupulous as if we were pleading before

    The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves 2004

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