howsoever
Americanadverb
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to whatsoever extent or degree.
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in whatsoever manner.
Etymology
Origin of howsoever
Middle English word dating back to 1275–1325; see origin at how 1, so 1, ever
Example Sentences
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What’s clear from this evidence is that the vast majority of people do not experience regret, howsoever defined, after transitioning genders.
From Slate • Feb. 8, 2024
“Dean’s excuses are not designed to respond to reactions, howsoever deeply felt or unsettling, to an event such as a national election,” the dean of academic affairs, Mark Schenker, told the Yale Daily News.
From Washington Post • Nov. 13, 2016
His hair was the brown of sodden straw, and it stuck out at awkward, seventeen-year-old angles, wet and comb it howsoever much he tried.
From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman
They are to remember that, howsoever inconveniently and troublingly, youth represents the ungainsayable imperiousness of the future.
From Child Versus Parent Some Chapters on the Irrepressible Conflict in the Home by Wise, Stephen
"Well, well, 'tis no affair of ours, Tim, howsoever it be," returned Gilbert.
From The Golden Galleon BEING A NARRATIVE OF THE ADVENTURES OF MASTER GILBERT OGLANDER, AND OF HOW, IN THE YEAR 1591, HE FOUGHT UNDER THE GALLANT SIR by Leighton, Robert
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