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not the less, adv.
Also Sc. 5–6 nochtþeles(e, 6 -theles(s.
[See the separate words, and cf. na-, ne-, notheless. The Sc. forms properly belong to nought adv.]
Nevertheless; nonetheless.
αc1375Sc. Leg. Saints i. (Peter) 605 Þe quhilk petir nocht-þe-lese Conuertit. Ibid. xv. (Barnabas) 137 Debonare wes he nocht-þe-les. 1533Bellenden Livy i. vi. (S.T.S.) I. 38 Nochtþeles, þe cumpany of horsmen..was Impediment. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. Prol. 14 Carik nochttheless hes ane monasterie called Croce Regal.
β1535Coverdale Dan. v. 17 Yet not thelesse, I wil rede the wrytynge. 1567Gude & Godlie B. (S.T.S.) 41 Bot not the les, Abraham this answer maid. 1637–50Row Hist. Kirk (Wodrow Soc.) 301 Nottheles, the Bishops being so preferred to high places [etc.]. 1639Spottiswood Hist. Ch. Scot. vii. (1677) 519 Nottheless going on in his wonted course, he sent his base Son..into the Country.
1839Kemble Resid. Georgia (1863) 11 They are free from the chain,..but they are not the less under a ban. a1869Conington Misc. Writ. I. 213 It is determined, not the less, by the causes which were appointed [etc.]. |