What does howsomever mean?
Howsomever means (archaic, nonstandard) However; howsoever..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · conjunction
(archaic, nonstandard) However; howsoever..
Howsomever, a bullet passes between my arm—just here, and my side, and striked him dead upon the spot.
But, howsomever, Cephas wuz took sick, Sally Ann wuzn't able to do anything for their support, S. Annie wuz took down with the typhus, and so it happened the very day the monument wuz brought to the Loontown cemetery, Cephas Bodley's folks wuz carried to the county house, S. Annie, the children and all.
"I've come, howsomever, your mind to light With a more superior fire: You'll have naught hencefor'ard to do but write, While I sets by and inspire.
The old woman is over to one of the neighbors', and there ain't no one home but me; howsomever, I'm equal to any two."
There's one thing certain, howsomever, which is that jest now an hundred of our people could walk through the entire encampment without bein' called upon to spill a drop of blood."
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Howsomever means (archaic, nonstandard) However; howsoever..
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Howsomever, a bullet passes between my arm—just here, and my side, and striked him dead upon the spot.
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