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natheless, nathless, adv. (and prep.) Now only arch.|ˈneɪθlɪs, ˈnæθlɪs|
Forms: α. 1 na þe læs, naðe læs, 3 naðelas, 4–5 naþeles, (4 -lese), 4–6 natheles, (4 -lees), 6– natheless, (6 -lesse, also 6 naithe-, naythelesse, 7 nay-the-less). β. 4–7 nathles, (4 naþles), 6–7 nathlesse, (6 naith-), 7 nathless.
[f. OE. ná na adv.1 + þe (= þý) the + læs less adv. Cf. netheless and notheless.]
Nevertheless, notwithstanding.
αc900in Bouterwek Screadunga (1858) 22 Þa na þe læs beseah Lothes wif underbæc. a1122O.E. Chron. (Laud MS.) an. 1011 Naðe læs for eallum þisum griðe..hi ferdon æᵹhwider folc mælum. c1200Vices & Virtues 27 Ac naðelas ic wille, a godes half, ðat tu bie ȝewarned. c1290Beket 414 in S. Eng. Leg. I. 118 Ake naþeles is heorte bar euere to Thomas þer. a1366Chaucer Rom. Rose 403 But natheles I trowe that she Was faire sumtyme, and fresh to se. c1440Gesta Rom. xlviii. 208 (Harl. MS.), Naþeles hit shall be don as thow wolt have hit. 1533More Apol. 131 This Calanius beynge a senator, and natheles lenyng all vnto the people. 1596Spenser Hymn Beauty 159 Nathelesse the soule is faire and beauteous still. 1622Wither Philarete M 4 Yet I, poore I; must perish nay-the-lesse. 1748Richardson Clarissa (1768) II. 348 But she comes on very well nathelesse. 1816Scott Old Mort. Introd., If it be..pretended that my information..is, natheless, incompetent to the task. 1867Morris Jason ix. 228 Somewhat they doubted, natheless forth they passed.
βc1400Apol. Loll. 4 Þowe he be his seruaunt of dette & oblisching, naþles he is not his seruaunt in filling of werk. 1600Holland Livy xxiv. xix. 521 The enterprise, being a service of small consequence, and nath'lesse very dangerous. 1667Milton P.L. i. 299 The torrid Clime Smote on him sore..; Nathless he so endur'd. 1748Thomson Cast. Indol. ii. xli, Nathless with feigned respect he bade give back The rabble rout. 1790Coleridge Devonshire Roads, Nathless Revenge and Ire the Poet goad. 1814Scott Wav. xxx, ‘Indubitably’, answered Mr. Cruickshanks;..‘Nathless, if your honour—’. 1868Morris Earthly Par. (1870) I. ii. 554 Nathless by some few fathers old These tales about the place were told.
b. prep. In spite of, notwithstanding. rare.
1567Drant Horace, Ep. Ded., Wheras, nathles the wyt of the one and the port of the other, all theyre wyde fames hadd long ere this time bene drenched in the dust. 1802Mrs. Radcliffe Gaston de Blondeville Posth. Wks. 1826 III. 39 Yet could he not endure to behold him, nathless the expectations of most in the court. 1882O'Donovan Merv Oasis I. 327 Nathless the dread which I had of these creatures, I was obliged to make a halt. |