资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Albeit \Al`be"it\, conj. [OE. al be although it be, where al is
   our all. Cf. {Although}.]
   Even though; although; notwithstanding. --Chaucer.

         Albeit so masked, Madam, I love the truth. --Tennyson.