All 6 Uses
nevertheless
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The Chrysalids
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- Nevertheless, the question of Offences was not always as simple as one might think, and when there was disagreement the district's inspector could be sent for.†
Chpt 2 *nevertheless = despite that (used to connect contrasting ideas)
- Nevertheless, the width of their advance made them difficult to deal with.†
Chpt 4
- We were sorry about his accident — nevertheless, it was a relief to all of them 8o to know that it had been simply an accident.†
Chpt 8
- It was a great satisfaction to learn and know more, it helped to ease one over a lot of puzzling matters, and I began to understand many of the things Uncle Axel talked about much better, nevertheless, it brought, too, the first taste of complications from which we would never again be free.†
Chpt 8
- Nevertheless, it is unwise to go into the woods without a weapon of some kind, for it is possible for larger creatures to work their way down the necks of forest which thrust out of the Fringes, almost clear across Wild Country in some places, and then slink from one tract of woodland to another.†
Chpt 11
- Admittedly it was less intense than it had been on former occasions, and experience did now enable us to put up more of a barrier against it; nevertheless, the effect was wearing.†
Chpt 12
Definitions:
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(1)
(nevertheless) despite thatBased on idea 1 we might not expect idea 2, but this is a way of saying that even though idea 1 was just stated, we still have idea 2. Synonyms include in spite of that, despite that, nevertheless, nonetheless, on the other hand, in contrast and but.
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)