Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Howbeit \How*be"it\, conj. [How + be + it.]
   Be it as it may; nevertheless; notwithstanding; although;
   albeit; yet; but; however.

         The Moor -- howbeit that I endure him not - Is of a
         constant, loving, noble nature.          --Shak.