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withal
(chiefly archaic) Together with the rest; besides; in addition.
💬 Quotations
It is the common wonder of all men how among so many millions of faces there should be none alike: Now contrary, I wonder as much how there should be any; he that shall consider how many thousand severall words have beene carelesly and without study composed out of 24 Letters; withall how many hundred lines there are to be drawne in the fabricke of one man; shall easily finde that this variety is necessary: […]
I shall, thou say'st, expel / A brutish monster: what if I withal / Expel a Devil who first made him such?
Whenas the Palmer came in hall, / No lord, nor knight, was there more tall, / Or had a statelier step withal.
(chiefly archaic) All things considered; nevertheless.
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But I found myself continually returning to the countenance, and I still think I could have modelled a better face out of putty. […] But withal there was a perceptible acumen about the man which was puzzling in the extreme.
But, just as I had been an individualist without knowing it, I was now a Socialist without knowing it, withal, an unscientific one.
So-al was a mighty fine-looking girl, built like a tigress as to strength and sinuosity, but withal sweet and womanly.
(archaic or obsolete) With this, that, or those.
📑 Synonyms:
therewith
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No matter who's displeas'd, when you are gone: / I fear me he will scarce be pleas'd with all.
The means; the wherewithal.
(archaic) With.
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[He has] produced new varieties of poison, more horribly deleterious than Nature, without the assistance of this learned person, would ever have plagued the world withal.
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