ˌnevertheˈless, adv.
[See never 5 (and 5 b) and less adv. Earlier equivalents are na-, ne-, and notheless.]
Notwithstanding; none the less.
| a 1300 Cursor M. 79 Scho es..Moder and maiden neuer þe lesse. c 1330 R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 61 Neuerþeles to William he ȝeld him wele his bone. c 1380 Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 430 Neverþelees spek we of apostasye of prests. c 1420 Lydg. Assembly of Gods 1018 Neuerthelese they seyde they wold endure tho shoures. 1484 Caxton Fables of Alfonce iv, The woman wold haue resysted, Neuertheles in thende she was content. 1512 in Willis & Clark Cambridge (1886) I. 609 Neuerthelasse hyt is agreed and couenaunted betwyn the said [etc.]. 1577 B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. ii. (1586) 57 b, It may be sowed neuerthelesse..at any time of the sommer. a 1610 Healey Cebes (1636) 155 Then wee benefit by his reading neuerthelesse. 1696 Whiston The. Earth (1722) 4 The Reader will never the less embrace the Conclusions. 1774 Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) II. 323 Nevertheless..they generally lead a life of famine and fatigue. 1841 Borrow Zincali II. ii. iii. 54 The Gitanos..have nevertheless found admirers in Spain. 1875 Jowett Plato (ed. 2) I. 169 They, knowing them to be evil, nevertheless indulge in them. |