altho

[awl-thoh]

conjunction

Informal.

1. an informal, simplified spelling of although.

Example Sentences

For example, when urged by Benjamin Rush, the Philadelphia physician and abolitionist, to support the Quaker petitions in the House, Madison responded, “Altho I feel the force of many of your remarks, I can not embrace the idea to which they lead.”

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Altho’ I have wondered many times how you are.

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“I’m sorry,” he said, “But we don’t want to take any risks, and it is not easy to land in White City. We’d rather not take any passengers if we’re going there. We are anxious to give you a ride, too, for altho the Goodyear company doesn’t want any freak publicity, this dirigible has been brought here to encourage aeronautics and on that score we are anxious to interest the newspapers.”

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Altho they are in full Force, you know they are little more than Theory.

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“Altho’ not rare in the hills around here, the trees are very widely scattered, they are often quite small and as such produce individually but little fruit,” he wrote.

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