However (?), adv. [Sometimes contracted into howe'er.] 1. In whetever manner, way, or degree.
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However yet they me despise and spite. Spenser.
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Howe'er the business goes, you have made fault. Shak.
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2. At all events; at least; in any case.
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Our chief end is to be freed from all, if it may be, however from the greatest evils. Tillotson.
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