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† netheless, adv. Obs.
Forms: 2–3 neoðe-, neoþe-, neðeles, 4 neþ(e)les, -lesse, 4–6 netheles, (4 -less, -lees), 6 -lesse, 7 ne(i)thlesse.
[f. ne, etc.: cf. na- and notheless.]
Nevertheless.
c1175Lamb. Hom. 137 Neoðeles he heom sulleð. c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 79 He makeð lete of þoleburdnesse and neðeles ne haueð non. c1250Gen. & Ex. 3853 At ðe laste neðeles, Eft ne come sone to cades. c1330R. Brunne Chron. Wace 9855 Netheles þey were at meschef. 1382Wyclif Luke xii. 31 Nethelees seke ȝe first the kyngdom of God. c1400Apol. Loll. 13 Neþles it is not iust as to soþfastnes. 1480Caxton Chron. Eng. cxxxi. 110 And netheles..he wold not mysdone hym. 1549Coverdale, etc. Erasm. Par. Rom. Argt., They fell nethelesse into all kyndes of mischief. 1579E. K. Ded. to Spenser's Sheph. Cal. §3 Nethelesse, let them..feede on theyr owne folly. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xviii. §49. 704 The thing..that all the world wist was true, and that neithlesse euery man laughed at. |