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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Quotation dates: 1513-1617
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Notheles, adv. [e.m.E. nothlesse (1606), ME. notheles, noþeles: the ME. word is at least partly OE. nó þý lǽs, but with the e.m. E.and the Sc. word cf. Natheles and Nottheles.] Nevertheless. — 1513 Doug. ii. iv. 82 (Sm.).
Bot notheles [C. netheles] (etc.) 1550 Sel. MSS. Q. Mary 54.
Notheles thei being very, as thei saye, of the yll handling of Franche men and other 1562-3 Winȝet I. 25/13.
Notheles quhen [etc.] c1590 Fowler I. 289/35. c1590 Ib. II. 84/17, 123/1.
Yet notheles must al this … pas away 1617 Acts IV. 537/2.
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