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However

adverb

Despite anything to the contrary (usually following a concession). Synonyms: all the same, even so, nevertheless, nonetheless, notwithstanding, still, withal, yet. "While we disliked each other, nevertheless we agreed" , "He was a stern yet fair master" , "Granted that it is dangerous, all the same I still want to go"

By contrast; on the other hand.

To whatever degree or extent. "They have begun, however reluctantly, to acknowledge the legitimacy of some of the opposition's concerns"

In whatever way or manner. "However he did it, it was very clever"

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... corresponded with the current opinions regarding the importance of either sex in human society. In other words, so long as female power and influence were in the ascendency, the creative force was regarded as embodying the principles of the female nature; later, however, when woman's power waned, and the supremacy of man was gained, the god-idea began gradually to assume the ...

— The God-Idea of the Ancients - or Sex in Religion • Eliza Burt Gamble

... by him all the more deeply because it would have been dangerous to give expression to his feelings. The result was that he made no progress in the subjects which he had been commanded to study. In 1775 he was allowed to give up law, not, however, to return to theology, but to begin the study of medicine. But medicine, though at first it seemed more attractive, failed, like law, to call forth his full energies. In the mean time another interference ...

— Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. • F. Max Mueller

... king and church. All who were suspected by the Mountain of having the least sympathy with the nobles or persecuted priests were branded as counter-revolutionary. The Mountain was willing to resort to any measures, however shocking, to rid the nation of those suspected of counter-revolutionary tendencies, and its leaders relied upon the populace of Paris to aid them in ...

— An Introduction to the History of Western Europe • James Harvey Robinson

... nursing and hushing a heavy child of eighteen months. There was no fire, though the weather was cold; both children were wrapped in some poor shawls and tippets as a substitute. Their clothing was not so warm, however, but that their noses looked red and pinched and their small figures shrunken as the boy walked up and down nursing and hushing the child with ...

— Bleak House • Charles Dickens

... and the ROMANCE OF AENEAS. They are all very long poems, consisting of series of stories partly derived from classic sources, partly invented by trouveres. They are important (1) as connecting, however loosely, mediaeval with classical literature, and (2) as showing some scholarship on the part of their authors and ...

— Song and Legend From the Middle Ages • William D. McClintock and Porter Lander McClintock

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