withal

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'And is not that a pretty stag withal, worth bringing down; florid, just entering his thirties, and with the susceptibilities of genius!

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  1. adverb In addition; besides: "And, withal, a wider publicity was given to thought-provoking ideas” (Holbrook Jackson).
  2. adverb Despite that; nevertheless.
  3. adverb Archaic Therewith.

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  • It was amazing the number of things they found to discuss and they discussed them so earnestly and withal, as it seemed to them, so wittily and wisely that they were blissfully unaware of the significant smiles going around the table. —  The House of Toys
  • Being spoken, in good humor, by one whom a fellow-Senator once declared to be "the best-natured man in the Senate," and having, withal, a certain appropriateness to this point, his remarks are here presented For three days the Senate-chamber was silent, but the discussions were transferred to another room of the Capitol, with closed doors and darkened windows, where party leaders might safely contend for a political and party policy. —  History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States
  • And withal, they think they have a dispensation from such strictness, and make it a sufficient plea that they are not such, because they never professed to be such. —  The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
  • You must lay your accounts to have such a life as the forerunner had; but withal, as he hath left us his trouble, so hath he left us his peace; the trouble will have an end, but the joy can no man take from you. —  The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
  • None has been too exalted or too powerful for attack; withal, his assaults, in comparison with those of his scurrilous contemporaries, have been moderate and gentlemanly in tone. —  The History of "Punch"
 

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  1. Middle English : with, with; see with + al, all; see all.

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  1. Early modern English also withall, withalle; from Middle English withal, withalle, properly two words, with alle; used in place of Anglo-Saxon mid ealle, with all, altogether, entirely: see with and all. Cf. at all, under all.
 

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