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- adverb Archaic Nevertheless.
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- adverb Alternative form of
natheless .
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Examples
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Enchirius is a little fish unneth half a foot long: for though he be full little of body, nathless he is most of virtue.
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Enchirius is a little fish unneth half a foot long: for though he be full little of body, nathless he is most of virtue.
Archive 2008-05-01 2008
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Then he besought Robin of Huntingdon, the jolly outlaw, nathless, to join him, and go to the help of their fair sire King
Burlesques 2006
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Not yet did clouds, dark with wind, carry the rains across the spacious earth; nathless the land lay decked with increase.
Codex Junius 11 Unknown
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"And wherefore not, wise sir? since you would nathless enter chickenhood."
Hayslope Grange A Tale of the Civil War Emma Leslie
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Were fallen from the gaping, gumless jaws; nathless
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, September 17, 1892 Various
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"Now, Master Drury, you will nathless make this wilful girl give an account of herself," said the lady, and she sat down; while Captain Stanhope and the rest came into the room, and the servants crowded round the door to hear what had happened.
Hayslope Grange A Tale of the Civil War Emma Leslie
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You may pursue your journey now, young man; but nathless you will speed your return, for the King needs trusty men to do him service in these troublous times.
Hayslope Grange A Tale of the Civil War Emma Leslie
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"Every honest Christian soul will nathless wish to do so," replied
Hayslope Grange A Tale of the Civil War Emma Leslie
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A cold rain set in, later, but the friar wended his way back, nathless, to his little hermitage.
Robin Hood 1917
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