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# howbeit

conjunction

«howbeit» in the English dictionary: Early Modern English — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Early Modern English

### Meaning

Nevertheless; still; but. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/H/howbeit/#m1)

### Then and now

No longer normal; today we say "however" or "but". The meaning is the same, but the word is old.

### Examples

- Howbeit the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead, (Torah NUM.31.22, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/H/howbeit/#x1)
- 'Howbeit the tribe of Levi thou shalt not number, neither shalt thou take the sum of them among the children of Israel; (Torah NUM.1.49, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/H/howbeit/#x2)
- Howbeit as the gazelle and as the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat thereof; the unclean and the clean may eat thereof alike. (Torah DEU.12.22, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/H/howbeit/#x3)

### Note

Today: however.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «howbeit» in the Early Modern English dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/H/howbeit/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«howbeit» in the Early Modern English dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/emode/w/howbeit.html) on Mova free.