natheless
Americanadverb
preposition
Etymology
Origin of natheless
before 900; Middle English; Old English nā·thē·lǣs, equivalent to nā not ( see na) + thē, variant of thȳ instrumental singular definite article ( see the 2) + lǣs less
Example Sentences
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Daniel pleaded with her to marry him "natheless."
From Time Magazine Archive
Yet natheless though wondrous gifts you call these, My faith is far more wonderful than all these.
From Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles Phillis - Licia by Martha Foote Crow
“Yea, we know well that you are Aucassin, out damoiseau, natheless we be not your men, but the Count’s.”
From Aucassin and Nicolete by Andrew Lang
I did indeed make a sore stumble; so also did David, and natheless he was a man after God’s own heart.
From Prisoners of Conscience by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
It so befell natheless that the wind was set against them, & drave them back off Nidarholm.
From The Sagas of Olaf Tryggvason and of Harald The Tyrant (Harald Haardraade) by Ethel Harriet Hearn
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