Middle English Dictionary Entry
nought-with-stōnding(e prep.
Entry Info
| Forms | nought-with-stōnding(e prep. Also noghtwith-stondende. |
| Etymology | Cp. adv. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
In spite of (sb. or sth.).
Associated quotations
- (1386) RParl.FM (C&D)34/9 : Where the eleccion of Mairaltee is to be to the fre men of the Citee..nought-withstondyng the same fredam or fraunchise, Nichol Brembre..thourgh debate & strenger partye ayeins the pees..was chosen Mair in destruccion of many ryght.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)5.1611 : For noght withstondende al the fare, Of that this world was mad so bare..Among the men was nothing mored Towardes god of good lyvynge.
- (1397) RParl.3.379a : Naghtwythstondyng myn unkyndenesse, I beseche hym evermore of his mercy and of his grace.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)189a/b : Nouȝt wiþstondynge [L tamen] so grete plente of fruyt, ȝit in þe same felde groweþ wele gode corne.
- (1423) Doc.Brewer in Bk.Lond.E.167/831 : Nought with stondynge alle þe percelles of monye þat þe seide John Pekker dede receyue..Robert Smyth and his Felawes dede ȝeven to hym a goune clothe.
- a1425(a1349) Rolle MPass.(2) (Upps C.494)53/12 : Nouȝt wiþstonding al þi grete payne, ȝit þou take heede to þe þeef vpon þi riȝt honde.
- ?c1425 Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)32/35 : A muscle and a lacerte beþ al oon..Nouȝtwiþstandynge [*Ch.(1): Noȝt agaynstondyng; L non obstante] Henry, þat semede to assigne difference bytwene ham.
- c1432 Bishop Notes in PMLA 49 (Cmb Dd.14.2)455 : [They] leet a rere a newe buldyng..nawt wiþ stondyng þe for bedyng of Edmund Kenyan, Mayre of Oxford.
- c1450(c1400) Rev.Jul.Norwich (Add 37790)39/21 : Nouȝtwithstondynge alle this trewe beleve, I desyrede a bodylye syght.
- c1450(c1400) Rev.Jul.Norwich (Add 37790)54/22 : For nouȝtwithstandynge alle my paynes, I wolde nouȝt hafe been lettyd for loove that I hadde in hym.
- a1500(?c1425) Spec.Sacer.(Add 36791)245/35 : He wiþ-helde the possession aȝeyn and dide the same iniurie noȝt withstondynge the myracle.