nevertheless

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They could be heard most often in saloons and brothels--nevertheless, they were beginning to move out of the Afro-American subculture and into the white society.

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  1. adverb In spite of that; nonetheless; however: a small, nevertheless fatal error.

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  • I knew that there was already a Sister Teresa of Jesus; nevertheless, my beautiful name of Therese could not be taken from me. —  The Story of a Soul (L'Histoire d'une Ame)
  • It is, nevertheless, a fact that without a solid technique the highest perfection in playing cannot be reached, and it is usually regarded as a hopeless case when the pupil antagonises the teacher. —  Famous Violinists of To-day and Yesterday
  • Here he adopted a civilized and faintly Corinthian posture but looked, nevertheless, as if he would sizzle when touched. —  Killer Dolphin - Ngaio Marsh - Alleyn 24
  • With one exception, nevertheless, they are all dismissed to the shelf by the publication of Professor Masson's monumental and authoritative biography, without perpetual reference to which no satisfactory memoir can henceforth be composed. —  Life of John Milton
  • He carried the MS. home, nevertheless, and a copy of it, finding its way back to Italy in the eighteenth century, restored Malatesti's fifty indiscretions to the Italian Parnassus. —  Life of John Milton
 

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  1. from Middle English never the lesse, never the lasse, etc.; from never + the+ less.
 

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/ˈnɛvərðəˈlɛs/
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