if so be
English edit
Conjunction edit
Usage notes edit
- if it happen that, supposing that: a somewhat rhetorical equivalent of simple ‘if’. arch. and dial. (Also occas. if so were that; ellipt. †if so.) .
See also edit
References edit
- John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “if so be”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.