Category:Though

Though (tho), conj. Etym: [oe. thogh, þah, as. edheáh, edhæh, edheh; Akin to os. thoh, ofries. thach, d. & g. doch but, yet, ohg. doh but, Yet though, icel. þo yet, nevertheless, sw. dock, dan. dog, goth. Þáuh, þáu, than, or, yet; of uncertain origin. *184.]

Defn: granting, admitting, or supposing that; notwithstanding that; If. Though he slay me, yet will i trust in him. Job xiii. 15. Not that i so affirm, though so it seem. Milton.

Note: it is compounded with all in although. See although. As though, As if. In the vine were three branches; and it was as though it budded. Gen. Xl. 10.

Though Though, adv.

Defn: however; nevertheless; notwithstanding; -- used in familiar Language, and in the middle or at the end of a sentence. I would not be as sick though for his place. Shak. A good cause would do well, though. Dryden.