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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
nonetheless
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
remain
▪ There are many crimes which are hard to prove but they remain nonetheless crimes.
▪ Bob Dole nonetheless remains the front-runner in the race to win the Republican presidential nomination.
▪ As trite as the saying has become, it remains nonetheless true.
▪ My reservations in regard to coalitions nonetheless remain.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The substance may not affect humans. Nonetheless, the FDA is examining it closely.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Although research has modified this supposition, it is nonetheless true that males are generally seducers and females the seduced.
▪ Folly doubted if she would care what Luke got up to, but she gave her the flowers nonetheless.
▪ It has, nonetheless, saved millions of families from hunger, homelessness, physical assault, and total despair.
▪ It was too late in the year for the almond blossom but the valley was beautiful nonetheless.
▪ Leland added: Since nonetheless the gentry of the vicinity were anything but affluent, the profits may have been largely illusory.
▪ Such a cost nonetheless needs setting against the advantages in any ecological study of gorilla social behaviour.
▪ We nonetheless welcome this particular representative of the genus.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
nonetheless

1839, as phrase none the less; contracted into one word from c.1930.

Wiktionary
nonetheless

adv. (context conjunctive English) nevertheless.

WordNet
nonetheless

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, nevertheless, withal, still, yet, all the same, even so, notwithstanding]

Usage examples of "nonetheless".

The analogon is a purely external sign, or index, that must somehow remain purely external in relation to what it signifies but nonetheless function as a signifier pointing to the absent object.

Almost everything so far had been pitched to discourage him from thinking analytically, but nonetheless .

The response included many a bespoken groan of disgruntlement, but it was nonetheless sincere.

Nonetheless, Marengo would have to go through at least one line, produce a passport and a ticket--unless Bonner had been able to get his son a boarding pass.

English gentlewomen protected themselves against the vagaries of the English climate with a brolly whose handle was pure goldhollow, as Miss Seeton was always careful to point out, because of the weight, but twenty-four carat hallmarked gold nonetheless.

Nonetheless, one evening about the middle of the month he finished reading aloud to her his expurgated version of the Arabian Nights stories.

The mediation that Descartes invoked in his reaffirmation of dualism is hypostatized by Kant, not in the divinity but nonetheless in a pseudo-ontological critique-in an ordering function of consciousness and an indistinct appetite of the will.

But the developers of certain tools once used by the hacking community, which are now being freely distributed or sold as security-related software, are nonetheless treated as malicious code.

We did manumit the slaves, for such is our law, but they labor here for us nonetheless, as you see.

Despite the very poor condition of the teeth there is nonetheless evidence of exceptionally vigorous masticatory action.

Nonetheless, whatever we decide about parity, these issues can be consciously and in good will debated, and in all cases that beats leaving the decision up to a hoe.

Nonetheless, studies by Gertrude Schmeidler at City College of New York showed significant precognition with college students in forced-choice trials of computer-generated targets, even when the viewers did not receive any feedback.

There was an Invigilator among them who, while not quite as thorough in pursuit as a Pursuivant might be, was nonetheless to be reckoned with.

Nonetheless, for all that Dunlap knew, Quiller had just made himself look straight so he could use the system to create his enterprise.

Any aspect of creation, of the physical universe and its daily workings, is presumed to have a highly esoteric and recomplicated origin, but one which is nonetheless capable of being speculated on wildly, almost ad infinitum in fact, by the properly trained mind.