All 5 Uses
nevertheless
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Passing, by Nella Larsen
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- Nevertheless, Irene felt, in turn, anger, scorn, and fear slide over her.†
p. 17.6nevertheless = despite that (used to connect contrasting ideas)
- If, at the time of choosing, Clare hadn't precisely reckoned the cost, she had, nevertheless, no right to expect others to help make up the reckoning.†
p. 51.9 *
- But undistinctive as the dance had seemed, it was, nevertheless, important.†
p. 81.1
- Surely, no other people so cursed as Ham's dark children.1 Nevertheless, her weakness, her shrinking, her own inability to compass the thing, did not prevent her from wishing fervently that, in some way with which she had no concern, John Bellew would discover, not that his wife had a touch of the tar-brush—Irene didn't want that—but that she was spending all the time that he was out of the city in black Harlem.†
p. 101.8
- Nevertheless, she meant to keep him.†
p. 113.2
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)