if so be

English

Conjunction

if so be

(archaic) If; if it happen (that); supposing that.

Usage notes

A rhetorical equivalent of if.

References

“if so be” in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, →ISBN.

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