nathelessadv.prep.

Brit.

/ˈneɪθlᵻs/,

/ˌneɪðəˈlɛs/, U.S.

/ˈneɪθlᵻs/,

/ˌneɪðəˈlɛs/

Forms:

α. Old English na þe læs, Old English naþelæs, Old English na ðe læs, Old English naðelæs, Old English na þy læs, early Middle English naðelæs, early Middle English naðelas, early Middle English na þe les, early Middle English na þeles, early Middle English naðeles, early Middle English naþulæs, Middle English naþelees, Middle English naþeles, Middle English naþelese, Middle English naþeless, Middle English naþelesse, Middle English nathelees, Middle English natherles (transmission error), Middle English–1500s natheles, Middle English–1700s nathelesse, Middle English– natheless, 1500s naithelesse, 1500s naythelesse, 1600s nay-the-less, 1600s nay-the-lesse.

β. Old English no þe læs, Old English no þy læs, Middle English noethelesse, Middle English noþelas, Middle English noðelas, Middle English noþeleas, Middle English noþeles, Middle English noðeles, Middle English noþeless, Middle English noþelesse, Middle English notheles, Middle English noþoles; also Scottish pre-1700 notheles.

γ. Middle English nadleez, Middle English naþles, Middle English–1600s nathles, 1500s naithlesse, 1500s–1600s nathlesse, 1600s nath'lesse, 1600s– nathless, 1800s naithless (Scottish).

δ. 1600s nothlesse.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: English na , no adv.¹, the adv., less adv.

Etymology: In α. and γ. forms forms < na, variant of no adv.¹ + the adv. + less adv. In β. and δ. forms < no adv.¹ + the adv. + less adv.

Now archaic and literary.

A. adv.

Nevertheless, notwithstanding. Cf. nautheless adv., netheless adv.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > qualification > [adverb] > however, nevertheless, notwithstanding

though-whetherc897

nathelesseOE

though971

whetherOE

yetOE

neverlOE

what for-thyc1175

nethelessa1200

never the latterc1225

algatec1230

in spite of (despite, maugre, etc.) one's teethc1230

nought for thatc1275

(all) for noughtc1325

(in) spite of one's nosec1325

alway1340

thoughless1340

ne'er the later (also latter)a1382

ne'er the lessa1382

neverlatera1382

neverthelessa1382

ne for-thia1400

neverlessa1400

not-againstandinga1400

nauthelessc1400

nouthelessc1400

algatesc1405

noughtwithstanding1422

netherless?a1425

notwithstanding1425

nethertheless1440

not gainstandingc1440

not the lessa1450

alwaysa1470

howbeit1470

never þe quedera1475

nought the lessc1480

what reck?a1513

nonetheless1533

howsomever1562

after all1590

in spite of spite1592

meantime1594

notwithstand1596

withal1596

in the meanwhile1597

meanwhile1597

howsoever1601

in (one's) spite?1615

however1623

in the meantime1631

non obstante1641

at the same time1679

with a non-obstante to1679

stilla1699

the same1782

all the same1803

quand même1825

still and all1829

anyhow1867

anyway1876

still and ona1894

all the samey1897

just the same1901

but1939

α.

eOE tr. Orosius Hist. (BL Add.) (1980) iii. ix. 69 He ðeah naþelæs heora land oferhergeade.

OE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Tiber. B.iv) anno 1011 Na ðe læs for eallum þissum gryðe & gafole ferdon æghwyder flocmælum & hergodon.

a1225 (c1200) Vices & Virtues (1888) 27 Ac naðelas ic wille, a godes half, ðat tu bie ȝewarned.

c1300 St. Thomas Becket (Laud) 414 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 118 Ake naþeles is heorte bar euere to Thomas þer.

c1330 (?c1300) Bevis of Hampton (Auch.) 409 ‘For gode’, queþ Beues; ‘naþeles, An houre sone for soþ ich wes.’

a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Romaunt Rose (Hunterian) 403 But natheles I trowe that she Was faire sumtyme, and fresh to se.

c1460 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Oseney Abbey (1907) 37 (MED) If wast or Destruccion þerof [sc. the forest] þey make..they be ipunysshed after þassise of our forest, savyng naþeles to thabbot and to þe forsaide chanons.

a1500 (?a1450) Gesta Romanorum (Harl. 7333) (1879) xlviii. 208 Naþeles hit shall be don as thow wolt have hit.

1533 T. More Apologye 131 This Calanius beynge a senator, and natheles lenyng all vnto the people.

1596 E. Spenser Hymne in Honour of Beautie 159 Nathelesse the soule is faire and beauteous still.

1622 G. Wither Faire-virtue sig. M4 Yet I, poore I; must perish nay-thelesse.

1748 S. Richardson Clarissa III. iii. 28 But she comes on very well, nathelesse.

1816 W. Scott Old Mortality Introd., in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. I. 8 If it be..pretended that my information..is, natheless, incompetent to the task.

1867 W. Morris Life & Death of Jason ix. 159 Somewhat they doubted, natheless forth they passed.

1896 J. K. Snowden Web of Old Weaver xii. 148 Natheless he would have done it.

1928 J. Masefield Midsummer Night 74 You know the spot, it is an evil place: Blood-sodden spirits haunt there without grace. Natheless, go boldly.

1969 A. Ginsberg Coll. Poems (1988) 526 Dr. Hermon busted in Texas for green weed garden-grown licensed Federal, Municipal-cop-prosecuted natheless.

1985 Times 11 May 8/6 Natheless, what cannot be cured can at least be mitigated.

β. OE Ælfric Interrogationes Sigewulfi in Genesin (Corpus Cambr. 162) lxviii, in Anglia (1884) 7 50 Þa no þe læs [OE Julius na ðe læs] beseah Lothes wif underbæc.lOE King Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Bodl.) xvi. 39 Ond þeah betwuh þyllecum unrihtum wæs him no þy læs underþeod eall þes middangeard.a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 23 Noþeles oðerhwile þu sunegest mid summe of þisse limen.c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) 72 Þare quene hit of-þouhte; noþeles heo hit þolede.c1330 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) 2377 (MED) Þurch pride þan ferd he Fram his ost, and fram his cite. Wele hii deden no þe les.a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1871) III. 217 (MED) He and his scoleres seide þat þey schulde not dure wiþ oute ende, and noþeles þey desired lif wiþ outen ende.c1390 in F. J. Furnivall Minor Poems Vernon MS (1901) ii. 509 (MED) I con not wonder wel ryme On latin ȝou to lere, But noþeles I wol assay.?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) ii. 97 In couenant of pes,..Bituex þam noþeles a skrite enselid & writen.c1400 J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) III. 396 And noþoles God techis to swere by hym in nede.1464 Let. in Ld. Clermont Wks. J. Fortescue (1869) I. 24 (MED) The quenes certificat..shulle be to you swerte sufficiant; Noethelesse I counseille you not to truste fermely theruppone.a1500 (?a1425) tr. Secreta Secret. (Lamb.) 60 And noþeles of wynd comys diuers perils and lettynges.γ. a1325 (c1250) Prov. Hendyng (Cambr.) viii, in Anglia (1881) 4 183 Ȝef..þou fallist..Into a wikid sinne, Nadleez do hit selde.c1430 (c1395) G. Chaucer Canon's Yeoman's Tale (Cambr. Gg.4.27) (1875) 717 Nowe wolde god my wytte myȝt suffice To tellen alle þat longethe to þat arte But nathles [v.r. nathelees] ȝit wylle I telle you part.c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 4 Þowe he be his seruaunt of dette and oblisching, naþles he is not his seruaunt in filling of werk.1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxiv. xix. 521 The enterprise, being a service of small consequence, and nath'lesse very dangerous.1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 299 The torrid Clime Smote on him sore..; Nathless he so endur'd. 1748 J. Thomson Castle of Indolence ii. xli Nathless with feigned respect he bade give back The rabble rout.1814 W. Scott Waverley II. vii. 117 ‘Indubitably,’ answered Mr. Cruickshanks..‘Nathless if your honour—.’ 1834 S. T. Coleridge Poet. Wks. I. i. 21 Nathless Revenge and Ire the Poet goad.1871 K. H. Digby Ouranogaia v. 80 For art..can never lead To those bright fields which we all nathless need.1881 Good Words 22 558 Nathless, it's no the way to talk, maister.1986 P. Reading Essent. Reading 148 Nathless ‘Human kind cannot bear very much reality’.δ. 1606 P. Holland tr. Suetonius Hist. Twelve Caesars 148 Yet might hee bee heard nothlesse of them that stoode a farre off.

B. prep.

In spite of, notwithstanding. Now rare.

ΚΠ

1567 T. Drant in tr. Horace Arte of Poetrie Ded. sig. *ij^v Wheras, nathles the wyt of the one, and the port of the other, all theyre wyde fames hadd longe ere this time bene drenched in the dust.

1802 A. Radcliffe Gaston de Blondeville in Posthumous Wks. (1826) III. 39 Yet could he not endure to behold him, nathless the expectations of most in the court.

1882 E. O'Donovan Merv Oasis I. 327 Nathless the dread which I had of these creatures, I was obliged to make a halt.

1904 J. Rhoades Little Flowers of St. Francis xxx. 182 These words nathless, Brother Ruffino being by, ne'er spake Saint Francis.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	natheless
释义	nathelessadv.prep. Brit. /ˈneɪθlᵻs/, /ˌneɪðəˈlɛs/, U.S. /ˈneɪθlᵻs/, /ˌneɪðəˈlɛs/ Forms: α. Old English na þe læs, Old English naþelæs, Old English na ðe læs, Old English naðelæs, Old English na þy læs, early Middle English naðelæs, early Middle English naðelas, early Middle English na þe les, early Middle English na þeles, early Middle English naðeles, early Middle English naþulæs, Middle English naþelees, Middle English naþeles, Middle English naþelese, Middle English naþeless, Middle English naþelesse, Middle English nathelees, Middle English natherles (transmission error), Middle English–1500s natheles, Middle English–1700s nathelesse, Middle English– natheless, 1500s naithelesse, 1500s naythelesse, 1600s nay-the-less, 1600s nay-the-lesse. β. Old English no þe læs, Old English no þy læs, Middle English noethelesse, Middle English noþelas, Middle English noðelas, Middle English noþeleas, Middle English noþeles, Middle English noðeles, Middle English noþeless, Middle English noþelesse, Middle English notheles, Middle English noþoles; also Scottish pre-1700 notheles. γ. Middle English nadleez, Middle English naþles, Middle English–1600s nathles, 1500s naithlesse, 1500s–1600s nathlesse, 1600s nath'lesse, 1600s– nathless, 1800s naithless (Scottish). δ. 1600s nothlesse. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: English na , no adv.¹, the adv., less adv. Etymology: In α. and γ. forms forms < na, variant of no adv.¹ + the adv. + less adv. In β. and δ. forms < no adv.¹ + the adv. + less adv. Now archaic and literary. A. adv. Nevertheless, notwithstanding. Cf. nautheless adv., netheless adv. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > qualification > [adverb] > however, nevertheless, notwithstanding though-whetherc897 nathelesseOE though971 whetherOE yetOE neverlOE what for-thyc1175 nethelessa1200 never the latterc1225 algatec1230 in spite of (despite, maugre, etc.) one's teethc1230 nought for thatc1275 (all) for noughtc1325 (in) spite of one's nosec1325 alway1340 thoughless1340 ne'er the later (also latter)a1382 ne'er the lessa1382 neverlatera1382 neverthelessa1382 ne for-thia1400 neverlessa1400 not-againstandinga1400 nauthelessc1400 nouthelessc1400 algatesc1405 noughtwithstanding1422 netherless?a1425 notwithstanding1425 nethertheless1440 not gainstandingc1440 not the lessa1450 alwaysa1470 howbeit1470 never þe quedera1475 nought the lessc1480 what reck?a1513 nonetheless1533 howsomever1562 after all1590 in spite of spite1592 meantime1594 notwithstand1596 withal1596 in the meanwhile1597 meanwhile1597 howsoever1601 in (one's) spite?1615 however1623 in the meantime1631 non obstante1641 at the same time1679 with a non-obstante to1679 stilla1699 the same1782 all the same1803 quand même1825 still and all1829 anyhow1867 anyway1876 still and ona1894 all the samey1897 just the same1901 but1939 α. eOE tr. Orosius Hist. (BL Add.) (1980) iii. ix. 69 He ðeah naþelæs heora land oferhergeade. OE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Tiber. B.iv) anno 1011 Na ðe læs for eallum þissum gryðe & gafole ferdon æghwyder flocmælum & hergodon. a1225 (c1200) Vices & Virtues (1888) 27 Ac naðelas ic wille, a godes half, ðat tu bie ȝewarned. c1300 St. Thomas Becket (Laud) 414 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 118 Ake naþeles is heorte bar euere to Thomas þer. c1330 (?c1300) Bevis of Hampton (Auch.) 409 ‘For gode’, queþ Beues; ‘naþeles, An houre sone for soþ ich wes.’ a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Romaunt Rose (Hunterian) 403 But natheles I trowe that she Was faire sumtyme, and fresh to se. c1460 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Oseney Abbey (1907) 37 (MED) If wast or Destruccion þerof [sc. the forest] þey make..they be ipunysshed after þassise of our forest, savyng naþeles to thabbot and to þe forsaide chanons. a1500 (?a1450) Gesta Romanorum (Harl. 7333) (1879) xlviii. 208 Naþeles hit shall be don as thow wolt have hit. 1533 T. More Apologye 131 This Calanius beynge a senator, and natheles lenyng all vnto the people. 1596 E. Spenser Hymne in Honour of Beautie 159 Nathelesse the soule is faire and beauteous still. 1622 G. Wither Faire-virtue sig. M4 Yet I, poore I; must perish nay-thelesse. 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa III. iii. 28 But she comes on very well, nathelesse. 1816 W. Scott Old Mortality Introd., in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. I. 8 If it be..pretended that my information..is, natheless, incompetent to the task. 1867 W. Morris Life & Death of Jason ix. 159 Somewhat they doubted, natheless forth they passed. 1896 J. K. Snowden Web of Old Weaver xii. 148 Natheless he would have done it. 1928 J. Masefield Midsummer Night 74 You know the spot, it is an evil place: Blood-sodden spirits haunt there without grace. Natheless, go boldly. 1969 A. Ginsberg Coll. Poems (1988) 526 Dr. Hermon busted in Texas for green weed garden-grown licensed Federal, Municipal-cop-prosecuted natheless. 1985 Times 11 May 8/6 Natheless, what cannot be cured can at least be mitigated. β. OE Ælfric Interrogationes Sigewulfi in Genesin (Corpus Cambr. 162) lxviii, in Anglia (1884) 7 50 Þa no þe læs [OE Julius na ðe læs] beseah Lothes wif underbæc.lOE King Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Bodl.) xvi. 39 Ond þeah betwuh þyllecum unrihtum wæs him no þy læs underþeod eall þes middangeard.a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 23 Noþeles oðerhwile þu sunegest mid summe of þisse limen.c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) 72 Þare quene hit of-þouhte; noþeles heo hit þolede.c1330 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) 2377 (MED) Þurch pride þan ferd he Fram his ost, and fram his cite. Wele hii deden no þe les.a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1871) III. 217 (MED) He and his scoleres seide þat þey schulde not dure wiþ oute ende, and noþeles þey desired lif wiþ outen ende.c1390 in F. J. Furnivall Minor Poems Vernon MS (1901) ii. 509 (MED) I con not wonder wel ryme On latin ȝou to lere, But noþeles I wol assay.?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) ii. 97 In couenant of pes,..Bituex þam noþeles a skrite enselid & writen.c1400 J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) III. 396 And noþoles God techis to swere by hym in nede.1464 Let. in Ld. Clermont Wks. J. Fortescue (1869) I. 24 (MED) The quenes certificat..shulle be to you swerte sufficiant; Noethelesse I counseille you not to truste fermely theruppone.a1500 (?a1425) tr. Secreta Secret. (Lamb.) 60 And noþeles of wynd comys diuers perils and lettynges.γ. a1325 (c1250) Prov. Hendyng (Cambr.) viii, in Anglia (1881) 4 183 Ȝef..þou fallist..Into a wikid sinne, Nadleez do hit selde.c1430 (c1395) G. Chaucer Canon's Yeoman's Tale (Cambr. Gg.4.27) (1875) 717 Nowe wolde god my wytte myȝt suffice To tellen alle þat longethe to þat arte But nathles [v.r. nathelees] ȝit wylle I telle you part.c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 4 Þowe he be his seruaunt of dette and oblisching, naþles he is not his seruaunt in filling of werk.1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxiv. xix. 521 The enterprise, being a service of small consequence, and nath'lesse very dangerous.1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 299 The torrid Clime Smote on him sore..; Nathless he so endur'd. View more context for this quotation1748 J. Thomson Castle of Indolence ii. xli Nathless with feigned respect he bade give back The rabble rout.1814 W. Scott Waverley II. vii. 117 ‘Indubitably,’ answered Mr. Cruickshanks..‘Nathless if your honour—.’ View more context for this quotation1834 S. T. Coleridge Poet. Wks. I. i. 21 Nathless Revenge and Ire the Poet goad.1871 K. H. Digby Ouranogaia v. 80 For art..can never lead To those bright fields which we all nathless need.1881 Good Words 22 558 Nathless, it's no the way to talk, maister.1986 P. Reading Essent. Reading 148 Nathless ‘Human kind cannot bear very much reality’.δ. 1606 P. Holland tr. Suetonius Hist. Twelve Caesars 148 Yet might hee bee heard nothlesse of them that stoode a farre off. B. prep. In spite of, notwithstanding. Now rare. ΚΠ 1567 T. Drant in tr. Horace Arte of Poetrie Ded. sig. ij^v Wheras, nathles the wyt of the one, and the port of the other, all theyre wyde fames hadd longe ere this time bene drenched in the dust. 1802 A. Radcliffe Gaston de Blondeville* in Posthumous Wks. (1826) III. 39 Yet could he not endure to behold him, nathless the expectations of most in the court. 1882 E. O'Donovan Merv Oasis I. 327 Nathless the dread which I had of these creatures, I was obliged to make a halt. 1904 J. Rhoades Little Flowers of St. Francis xxx. 182 These words nathless, Brother Ruffino being by, ne'er spake Saint Francis. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.prep.eOE
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