† noughtwithstanding (nocht-, noght-, nouȝt, etc.),
obs. var. of notwithstanding.
| c 1360 in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1881) 11 Noght-with⁓standing þat he was ȝing, He chastyd his flesch with fasting. 1386 Rolls of Parlt. III. 225/1 Noughtwithstondyng the same fredam or fraunchise, Nichol Brembre..was chosen Mair. 1413 Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton) i. xx. (1859) 21 Ne woldest thou neuer byleue, nouȝtwithstandynge that I haue put al my power. 1426 Paston Lett. I. 25 Nought with stondyng that I herde nevere of this matier.., yet I made an appell. 1533 Bellenden Livy ii. xiii. (S.T.S.) I. 179 The small pepill, nochtwithstanding þat þis valerius was create dictator [etc.]. 1596 Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. Prol. 5 The are nochtwithstanding [is] sumthing thiker, and mae cloudes. |