Definition of "howsoever" []

• To whatever degree or extent. (adverb)
• By whatever means. (adverb)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "I suppose it would lose some of its glamour if I were married to a ditch digger and had seven children, howsoever."
• "The state, howsoever feeble and fragmented, instils a sense of commonality for its people, in suffering and in all triumphs."
• "Mr. Sharif is a married, former head of government who likely had no expectation that these personal musings -- howsoever accurate or inaccurate they may be -- would be published in Ms. Barker's pithy memoir."