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withal

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with·al  (w-ôl, wth-)
adv.
1. In addition; besides: "And, withal, a wider publicity was given to thought-provoking ideas" (Holbrook Jackson).
2. Despite that; nevertheless.
3. Archaic Therewith.
prep. Archaic
With. Used after its object at the end of a sentence or clause.
[Middle English : with, with; see with + al, all; see all.]
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Adv.1.withal - despite anything to the contrary (usually following a concession); "although I'm a little afraid, however I'd like to try it"; "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"
all the same, even so, however, nevertheless, nonetheless, notwithstanding, still, yet
2.withal - together with this


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Withal, my knowledge of him is so meager that I should rather not undertake to say if he were himself persuaded of the truth of what he relates; certainly such inquiries as I have thought it worth while to set about have not in every instance tended to confirmation of the statements made.
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If it were a record of a solemn scientific expedition, it would have about it that gravity, that profundity, and that impressive incomprehensibility which are so proper to works of that kind, and withal so attractive.
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