Both Uses

notwithstanding
in
Jane Eyre
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She had obviously not heard anything to her advantage: and it seemed to me, from her prolonged fit of gloom and taciturnity, that she herself, notwithstanding her professed indifference, attached undue importance to whatever revelations had been made her.†
p. 225.5 *
Sympathies, I believe, exist (for instance, between far-distant, long-absent, wholly estranged relatives asserting, notwithstanding their alienation, the unity of the source to which each traces his origin) whose workings baffle mortal comprehension.†
p. 254.2

Definitions:

(1) (notwithstanding)
used to show that something remains true even though something else seems to go against it

Most commonly, you can substitute "in spite of" for notwithstanding. But see the first exemplary sample sentences for other common word substitutions.
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)