Know Your Next Word : sobeit
9. sobeit :
conjunction :
1. so be it
2. provided that
usage :
Not by rough tongues and ready fists
Can you hope to jilt in the modern lists.
The armies of a littler folk
Shall pass you under the victor's yoke,
Sobeit a nation that trains her sons
To ride their horses and point their guns. (
Alan Seeger : A Message to America : 1915.)
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