All 3 Uses
notwithstanding
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Pudd'nhead Wilson
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- Whatever your scheme was, it had sense in it, Blake's opinion to the contrary notwithstanding.†
Chpt 15 *
- A week previously he had as good as admitted to himself that he believed Luigi had possessed such a knife, and that he still possessed it notwithstanding his pretense that it had been stolen.†
Chpt 19
- It grieved me to do it, for after associating with her so much I had come to kind of like her after a fashion, notwithstanding she was such an ass and said such stupid, irritating things and was so nauseatingly sentimental.†
Chpt A.N.
Definitions:
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(1)
(notwithstanding) used to show that something remains true even though something else seems to go against itMost 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)