nonetheless, adv.
(nʌnðəˈlɛs, ˈnʌnðəlɛs)
Also none the less, none-the-less.
[See none adv. 1 b, less adv. 1 a.]
Nevertheless.
| 1847 Dickens Dombey (1848) xlii. 419, I thank you none the less. 1875 Ruskin Fors Clav. lv, The children none the less knew their love. 1924 G. B. Shaw St. Joan v. 66 But you will be none the less alone: they cannot save you. 1930 Principal's Rep., Armstrong College (Newcastle) 1929–30 4 The elevation of Sir William Noble..to the peerage..has been a matter of pride and pleasure..which nonetheless has been qualified subsequently. 1955 Times 13 July 7/5 Later than Nabucco.., it is, nonetheless, not such a good opera. 1972 Nature 8 Dec. 327/1 Although some research fields seem to grow from a single, germinal experiment, others take root in accidents set off by workers stumbling from one preserve to another—and are none-the-less interesting for that. |