Short for "regardless of how it may have not seemed the right thing to do given the new evidence, or at least that it no longer made as much sense to do so." Also for "but before I was lost on that tangent I was discussing something marginally more relevant, and here it is..."

A"ny*way (#), A"ny*ways (#), adv.

Anywise; at all.

Tennyson. Southey.

© Webster 1913.