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Definition:
howsoever, viz. however*
* Hamlet's distributed use of "howsomever" - "how" and "somever" - suggests that he is trying to control his matricidal feelings by thinking of the Ghost, who used "howsoever" in expressing his injunction.

Alex Newell. The Soliloquies in Hamlet: The Structural Design. (1991)
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Uses:
  I will speak daggers to her, but use none.
  My tongue and soul in this be hypocrites-
  How in my words somever she be shent,
  To give them seals never, my soul, consent! Exit.

William Shakespeare. Hamlet
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Ghost. If thou hast nature in thee, bear it not.
  Let not the royal bed of Denmark be
  A couch for luxury and damned incest.
  But, howsoever thou pursuest this act,
  Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive
  Against thy mother aught. Leave her to heaven,

William Shakespeare. Hamlet.
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