English

Conjunction

if so be

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

Usage notes

• A rhetorical equivalent of if.

References

• J[ohn] A. Simpson and E[dward] S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ISBN 978-0-19-861186-8.