All 10 Uses
nonetheless
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Kim, by Rudyard Kipling
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- But she filled it, none the less, with good, steaming vegetable curry, clapped a fried cake atop, and a morsel of clarified butter on the cake, dabbed a lump of sour tamarind conserve at the side; and Kim looked at the load lovingly.†
Chpt 1none the less = in spite of that (used to connect contrasting ideas)
- 'Nothing that I well remember, but some talk in the bazars, which is doubtless a lie, that even Rajahs—small Hill Rajahs—' 'But none the less of good Rajput blood.'†
Chpt 4 *
- 'Great Queen,' said Kim promptly, for he heard her shaking with indignation, 'I am even what the Great Queen says I am; but none the less is my master holy.†
Chpt 4
- 'None the less, but for me, those gifts would not have come.'†
Chpt 4
- None the less he remembered to hold himself lowly.†
Chpt 7
- None the less it is wrongful—' 'But thou art indeed old, Holy One.'†
Chpt 11
- None the less, if, by any chance, O man from Jullundur, thou rememberest what thou hast seen, either among the elders sitting under the village tree, or in thine own house, or in company of thy priest when he blesses thy cattle, a murrain will come among the buffaloes, and a fire in thy thatch, and rats in the corn-bins, and the curse of our Gods upon thy fields that they may be barren before thy feet and after thy ploughshare.'†
Chpt 11
- None the less, she made great parade of her formal inspections, the riot of which could be heard half-way to Mussoorie.†
Chpt 12
- For the first time in his life, Kim thrilled to the clean pride (it can be a deadly pitfall, none the less) of Departmental praise—ensnaring praise from an equal of work appreciated by fellow-workers.†
Chpt 12
- She is upon the Wheel and wholly given over to the shows of this life, but none the less, chela, she is virtuous, kindly, hospitable—of a whole and zealous heart.†
Chpt 12
Definitions:
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(1)
(nonetheless) in spite of that (Used to connect contrasting ideas. Other synonyms could include words and phrases such as nevertheless, all the same, still, and however.)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)