This week’s theme
Adverbs

This week’s words
somedeal
abaft
natheless
endlong
somewhither

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PRONUNCIATION:

(NAYTH-luhs/lis)

MEANING:

adverb: Nevertheless; notwithstanding.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Old English na (no) + the (this, that) + laes (less). Earliest documented use: 11th c.

USAGE:

“A mossy ship’s skipper -- any ship’s skipper -- is, as I have said, a small god, but a god natheless.”
Harry Turtledove; The Quest for the Great Gray Mossy; Analog Science Fiction & Fact (New York); Jan/Feb 2020.

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