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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
nevertheless
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
continue
▪ Development of all major new weapons programmes would nevertheless continue but over a longer time span.
▪ It may not have matched its past achievements, but it continued nevertheless.
▪ Farmers nevertheless continued their protest outside the government building.
▪ The monarch would nevertheless continue to be known as King, regardless of gender.
▪ Many organists nevertheless continue to fulfil the additional and varied roles of performing or conducting, and of private teaching.
▪ He continued nevertheless to act as unpaid organizer and adviser to the Peelites up to 1852.
▪ The HYDRO-CONGO state oil company would nevertheless continue to exploit oil reserves, occasionally with the participation of foreign companies.
remain
▪ Precise evaluation of the effects of overseas investment nevertheless remains extremely difficult.
▪ But the aristocracy of Savoy nevertheless remained a powerful class, enjoying unchallenged supremacy within the duchy.
▪ Almost painfully avant-garde in style, it nevertheless remains a landmark in post-Soviet literature.
▪ Their choice of a legend about sacrifice to the gods nevertheless remains significant.
▪ This traditional classification nevertheless remains a convenient way of approaching the task of describing the United Kingdom constitution.
▪ Combined Fleet nevertheless remained convinced that it must take the offensive somewhere as soon as possible.
▪ The basic pattern nevertheless remains the same.
▪ In some of the cases he deals with these interests supplement one another; but they nevertheless remain distinct.
seem
▪ If moral progress was not, as for Hobhouse, pre-ordained, it seemed nevertheless to be occurring.
▪ It does nevertheless seem a useful offence to catch persons who have not reached the stage of an attempt.
▪ With such singers, such music and such a story, Mr Alden's approach seemed nevertheless too fanciful by half.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The Sharks played with two men in the penalty box, but nevertheless managed to score.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A false belief may nevertheless be justified.
▪ But the pain is nevertheless real.
▪ Having managed somehow to skip going to college, he has nevertheless made a fortune as a very young man.
▪ Reintroduction of food after elemental regimens must nevertheless be undertaken with the greatest of care irrespective of whether or not elimination diets are used.
▪ The followers of this cult are, nevertheless, looking to the future and investing considerable sums of money in it.
▪ They have nevertheless exercised considerable influence over judicial and academic thought.
▪ Throughout the Mekong delta, local officials who disdained Tu Duc nevertheless quit the provincial administration rather than submit to alien rule.
▪ Thus we can talk of a local government system which is different from a central government system but nevertheless interacts with it.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nevertheless

Nevertheless \Nev`er*the*less"\, adv. & conj. [Never + the (see The by that) + less.] Not the less; notwithstanding; in spite of that; yet.

No chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous; nevertheless, afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness.
--Heb. xii. 11.

Syn: However; at least; yet; still. See However.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
nevertheless

c.1300, neuer þe lesse; as one word from early 14c., neuerþeles. The sense of never here is "not at all; none the," as in unmerged expressions such as never the wiser, never the worse. Middle English also had neverthelater in same sense.

Wiktionary
nevertheless

adv. (context conjunctive English) in spite of what preceded; yet.

WordNet
nevertheless

adv. despite anything to the contrary (usually following a concession); "although I'm a little afraid, however I'd like to try it"; "while we disliked each other, nevertheless we agreed"; "he was a stern yet fair master"; "granted that it is dangerous, all the same I still want to go" [syn: however, withal, still, yet, all the same, even so, nonetheless, notwithstanding]

Wikipedia
Nevertheless

Nevertheless may refer to any of the following and more:

  • Nevertheless (album), an album by Christine Fellows
  • Nevertheless (band), an American Christian indie pop rock band
  • " Nevertheless I'm in Love with You", a song written by Harry Ruby
Nevertheless (band)

Nevertheless, often abbreviated as NTL, was a Christian power pop band from Chattanooga, Tennessee. Their song "Live Like We're Alive" reached the top 5 of the R&R Christian Rock Chart. Their song "The Real," was played on Contemporary Christian Music radio stations, peaking in the Top 10 on radio stations throughout the United States. The band has toured with many other contemporaries from the Christian rock scene, including Superchick, Skillet, Hawk Nelson, Falling Up, and Number One Gun.

They disbanded after a final concert in December 2009. They made this decision due to personal life and pressure.

Nevertheless (album)

Nevertheless is the fourth studio album by Christine Fellows, released on November 6, 2007 on Six Shooter Records. The album was principally inspired by the life and work of poet Marianne Moore; secondary inspirations include artist Joseph Cornell.

Fellows previously composed some songs on the album, including "The Spinster's Almanac", for a dance work by choreographer Susie Burpee.

The album was recorded at the Prairie Recording Co. studio in Winnipeg and the Manitou Opera House in Manitou, Manitoba. Guest musicians include Leanne Zacharias, Cristina Zacharias, Ed Riefel, Barry Mirochnick, Keith McLeod, Cam Loeppky, Greg Smith and John K. Samson.

Usage examples of "nevertheless".

The observations of such individuals will be more complicated to analyze than those of constant-velocity observers, whose motion is more serene, but nevertheless we can ask whether there is some way of taming this complexity and bringing accelerated motion squarely into our newfound understanding of space and time.

Nevertheless, he concluded that the moral life is a consequence of civilisation, not the natural state and that in achieving morality and civilisation men and woman have lost their innocence.

The English, despite the fact that they are in the doctrine of faith alone, nevertheless in the exhortation to the Holy Communion openly teach self-examination, acknowledgment, confession of sins, penitence and renewal of life, and warn those who do not do these things with the words that otherwise the devil will enter into them as he did into Judas, fill them with all iniquity, and destroy both body and soul.

And in the Fifth Symphony, one of those in which he called for no vocal performers, he nevertheless managed to vary and expand the conventional suite by preceding the first allegro with a march, and separating and relieving the gargantuan scherzo and rondo with an adagietto for strings alone.

On the 22nd of December, Lord John Russell rose to move the order of the day, for the house to resolve itself into a committee of supply, and at the same time took occasion to state that, although no measures could be taken by the house with regard to Canada, he nevertheless did not consider himself justified, in the actual condition of that province, to move the adjournment of the house beyond the 16th of January.

Nevertheless, I owe it to myself to tell my readers that my pleasure was too pure to have in it any admixture of vice.

I love Agatha, and that she loves me, nevertheless I am your friend, and since you adore her I will do my best to hasten your bliss.

Nevertheless, I walked about from door to door like a dejected beggar, till I got the almous deed of a civil reception--and who would have thought it?

Nevertheless, to be on the safe side, the Ampersand group had decided to infiltrate separately.

Nevertheless, the notion of an androgynous society misses the whole point of cross-dressing.

Nevertheless it is a good piece of travel, and anyone who will undertake it will see Louviers and will pass Anet, where the greatest work of the Renaissance once stood, and will go through lonely but rich pastures until at last he gets to Chartres by the right gate.

Nevertheless Sir Robert Vansittart, chief diplomatic adviser to the Foreign Secretary and one of the leading opponents in London of the appeasement of Hitler, saw Kleist on the afternoon of his arrival, and Winston Churchill, still in the political wilderness in Britain, received him the next day.

Fourteen years later Chief Justice Marshall observed for the Court that its appellate jurisdiction is derived from the Constitution, but proceeded nevertheless to hold that an affirmative bestowal of appellate jurisdiction by Congress, which made no express exceptions to it, implied a denial of all others.

Nevertheless, a typical arbitration award simply orders one party to pay money to another.

But we are not necessarily restricted to the limits of the nameable in this matter, so that it is of no argumentative importance whether or not this suggested method is the method which the supposed Mind actually adopts, seeing that there may still be other possible methods, which, nevertheless, we are unable to suggest.