† notheless, adv. Obs.
Forms: 1 no þy læs, 2–5 noþeles(s, (3 -las, 4 ? noþo-), 3 noðeles, -las, 3–4 notheles, 7 nothlesse.
[f. OE. nó no adv.2; in later use perh. also a variant of natheless.]
Nevertheless.
| c 888 K. ælfred Boeth. xvi. §4 Ond þeah betwuh þyllecum unrihtum wæs him no þy læs underþeod eall þes middanᵹeard. c 1175 Lamb. Hom. 23 Noþeles oðerhwile þu suneȝest mid summe of þisse limen ofter þenne þu scoldest. c 1205 Lay. 141 Þare quene hit of-þouhte; noþeles heo hit þolede. a 1250 Owl & Night. 1297 Ac noþeles heo hur vnderstod. 1338 R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 97 In couenant of pes,..Bituex þam noþeles a skrite enselid & writen. c 1380 Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 396 And noþoles God techis to swere by hym in nede. c 1400 tr. Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh. 60 And noþeles of wynd comys diuers perils and lettynges. 1606 Holland Sueton. 148 Yet might hee bee heard nothlesse of them that stoode a farre off. |