All 11 Uses
nonetheless
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The Plague
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- None the less, guided by a spirit of prudence that all would appreciate, the Prefect was putting into force some precautionary measures.†
Part 1 *none the less = in spite of that (used to connect contrasting ideas)
- Yes, this unavailing quest which never left his mind had worn him out; nonetheless, he went on adding up the figures and compiling the statistics needed for the sanitary groups.†
Part 2
- But at this same moment, now that once more all ways of escape were sealed against him, he felt his longing for her blaze up again, with a violence so sudden, so intense, that he started running to his hotel, as if to escape the burning pain that none the less pervaded him, racing like wildfire in his blood.†
Part 2
- Nonetheless, they sufficed to start a wave of revolutionary violence, though only on a small scale.†
Part 3
- The furious revolt of the first weeks had given place to a vast despondency, not to be taken for resignation, though it was none the less a sort of passive and provisional acquiescence.†
Part 3
- Or when, quite unexpectedly, by some kindly chance, they felt a twinge of jealousy, none the less acute for its objectlessness.†
Part 3
- None the less, the opera continued in high favor and played regularly to full houses.†
Part 4
- And they advanced arguments, often quite impressive ones, to make me swallow what nonetheless I couldn't bring myself to stomach.†
Part 4
- All the same, this new development was the talk of the town, and people began to nurse hopes none the less heartfelt for being unavowed.†
Part 5
- For the sensation, confused perhaps, but none the less poignant for that, of all those days and weeks and months of life lost to their love made them vaguely feel they were entitled to some compensation; this present hour of joy should run at half the speed of those long hours of waiting.†
Part 5
- Nonetheless, he knew that the tale he had to tell could not be one of a final victory.†
Part 5
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)