All 8 Uses
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- Nonetheless, the Governor-at the urging of Reverend Verringer, I suppose — has gone out of his way to be accommodating, and has arranged to have Grace Marks placed at my disposal for several hours every afternoon.†
Chpt 4nonetheless = in spite of that (used to connect contrasting ideas)
- Should you nonetheless decide to examine Grace Marks at her current place of abode, be pleased to consider yourself amply warned.†
Chpt 4 *
- Nonetheless she's an interesting study.†
Chpt 4
- They sit, and coffee appears, brought in by the slab-faced housekeeper on a tray which is plain in design, but nonetheless of silver.†
Chpt 4
- But he'd learned some worthwhile lessons nonetheless.†
Chpt 7
- But nonetheless, in the middle of the afternoon, when if things had been as usual I would have been sitting down, outside perhaps to catch a breath of air, with some mending, to give my feet a rest as I was on the two of them the most part of every day, I was down on my knees instead, scrubbing the stone floor of the summer kitchen.†
Chpt 8
- Not that he is up to any good either, she says, having the air of a poisoner about him, as so many doctors do have, with their bottles and potions and pills, and she thanks the good Lord every day that she isn't a rich old lady under his care, or she would not be long for this world; and he has a strange habit of digging in the garden, although it is now much too late to plant anything, but he goes at it like a sexton, and has turned over almost the whole of the yard, nonetheless; and then it's her who has to sweep up the mud he tracks in, and scrub the dirt out of his shirts in the wash, and heat up the water for his bath.†
Chpt 9
- He was mad to expect it, but furious nonetheless.†
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)