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||No"tus (?), n. [L., fr. Gr. &?;.]
The south wind.

Not"wheat` (?), n. [Nott +
wheat.] Wheat not bearded. Carew.

Not`with*stand"ing (?), prep.
Without prevention, or obstruction from or by; in spite
of.

We gentil women bee

Loth to displease any wight,

Notwithstanding our great right.

Those on whom Christ bestowed miraculous cures were so
transported that their gratitude made them, notwithstanding
his prohibition, proclaim the wonders he had done.

&fist; Notwithstanding was, by Johnson and Webster, viewed
as a participle absolute, an English equivalent of the Latin non
obstante. Its several meanings, either as preposition, adverb, or
conjunction, are capable of being explained in this view. Later
grammarians, while admitting that the word was originally a
participle, and can be treated as such, prefer to class it as a
preposition or disjunctive conjunction.


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