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† never the lat(t)er, adv. Obs.
Also 5–6 neuerthelat(t)er.
[See never 5 and later adv., latter adv.]
= nevertheless.
αc1330Spec. Guy Warw. 832 He weneþ wasshe him wid þat water, And he is foul neuere þe later. 1387–8T. Usk Test. Love i. i. (Skeat) l. 19 Never-the-later yet hertly..have mynde on thy servaunt. c1450tr. De Imitatione ii. ix. 51 Neverþelater amonge þese he dispeiriþ not. 1531Tindale Exp. 1 John (1537) 88 Neuerthelater it were some⁓what yet yf [etc.]. 1571Golding Calvin on Ps. iii. 9 Never⁓thelater I have folowed that which is plainest. 1609Holland Amm. Marcell. 207 Never the later..[he] endevoured earnestly to prepare all things. 1652W. Sclater Civ. Magistracy (1653) 28, I must therefore, never the later, condemn you, being convicted.
β1340Hampole Pr. Consc. 3650 Bot never-þe-latter..Yhit may he helpe þe saules þus. c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) xvii. 76 If all he ware a paynymme, neuer þe latter he serued Godd full deuoutely. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 420 b/1 Neuerthelatter he shal not haue the vyctorye of me. a1550Image Hypocr. iv. 245 in Skelton's Wks. (1843) II. 442/1 Nowe never the latter I intend to clatter. 1587Golding De Mornay xiii. (1617) 197 They which haue flatly denied the Creation, haue neuer the latter granted the Prouidence. |