† netheless, adv. Obs.
Forms: 2–3 neoðe-, neoþe-, neðeles, 4 neþ(e)les, -lesse, 4–6 netheles, (4 -less, -lees), 6 -lesse, 7 ne(i)thlesse.
[f. ne, etc.: cf. na- and notheless.]
Nevertheless.
| c 1175 Lamb. Hom. 137 Neoðeles he heom sulleð. c 1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 79 He makeð lete of þoleburdnesse and neðeles ne haueð non. c 1250 Gen. & Ex. 3853 At ðe laste neðeles, Eft ne come sone to cades. c 1330 R. Brunne Chron. Wace 9855 Netheles þey were at meschef. 1382 Wyclif Luke xii. 31 Nethelees seke ȝe first the kyngdom of God. c 1400 Apol. Loll. 13 Neþles it is not iust as to soþfastnes. 1480 Caxton Chron. Eng. cxxxi. 110 And netheles..he wold not mysdone hym. 1549 Coverdale, etc. Erasm. Par. Rom. Argt., They fell nethelesse into all kyndes of mischief. 1579 E. K. Ded. to Spenser's Sheph. Cal. §3 Nethelesse, let them..feede on theyr owne folly. 1611 Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xviii. §49. 704 The thing..that all the world wist was true, and that neithlesse euery man laughed at. |