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- adverb
Anyway ;at least ;regardless . Indicatessupport ordegree of a previous statement.
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Examples
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"There's very few men get up that high, I reckon; leastaways, I've never sot eyes on them."
Medoline Selwyn's Work Hattie E. Colter
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"I don't a know about dat ar, Bre'er 'Liab, but leastaways we can't do no more'n make de trial, anyhow."
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"I don't a know about dat ar, Bre'er'Liab, but leastaways we can't do no more'n make de trial, anyhow."
Bricks Without Straw Albion Winegar Tourg��e 1871
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He's rich, leastaways his dad is, an 'he can get as much out o' the old 'un as he wants, -- will have it all in time.
The Death Shot A Story Retold Mayne Reid 1850
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