"anyways" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1851, Church Wardens of Burlington, “The Church Wardens &c. of Burlington to the Honourable Society. Burlington, 28th, 1715”, in Collections of the Protestant Episcopal Historical Society, volume 1, →OCLC, page 76",
          "text": "...we are bound to assert that we never heard either in his public discourses or private conversation, anything that might tend towards encouraging sedition, or anyways insolencing the government",
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        "In any way or respect, at all."
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        "(rare) In any way or respect, at all."
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        "Anyway, anyhow, in any case."
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        "(conjunctive, informal, chiefly Canada, US, Philippines) Anyway, anyhow, in any case."
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        "In any way or respect, at all."
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        "(rare) In any way or respect, at all."
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        "Anyway, anyhow, in any case."
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