Meanings
- alternativenot comparableAlternative form of natheless.
Would'st thou revive the deep Despair, / The Anguish, that unutter'd nathless wrings / My inmost Heart?
a. 1772 (date written), Dante [Alighieri], “[Translations.] Dante. Canto 33, dell’ Inferno.”, in Thomas Gray, transl., edited by Edmund Gosse, The Works of Thomas Gray in Prose and Verse. […], volume I (Poems, Journals, and Essays), London: Macmillan and Co., published 1884, →OCLC, page 1571 more example
I dare not always touch her, lest the kiss Leave my lips charred. Yea, Lord, a little bliss, Brief bitter bliss, one hath for a great sin; Nathless thou knowest how sweet a thing it is.
1862-1866, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Laus Veneris
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