none the less

none the less (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of nonetheless
   • 1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 4:

     For beauty and picturesqueness and sheer thrill these discoveries remain unmatched by those of any subsequent year. None the less, no one, not even Mr. Evans himself, ever expected that so much was to follow.

   • 1982, Frank Hahn, Monetary and Inflation, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, page xi:

     I none the less hold that [John Maynard Keynes'] insights were several orders more profound and realistic than those of his recent critics.

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see none,‎ the,‎ less.
   • 1896 March, E[dith] Nesbit, In Homespun, London: John Lane, […]; Boston, Mass.: Roberts Bros., page v:

     These tales are written in an English dialect—none the less a dialect for that it lacks uniformity in the misplacement of aspirates, and lacks, too, strange words misunderstanded of the reader.

   • 1903, William Macdonald, “[Notes to “Critical Essays”] Recollections of a Late Royal Academician (“Englishman’s Magazine,” September 1831)”, in Charles Lamb, Critical Essays, London: J[oseph] M[alaby] Dent & Co.; New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Co., page 319:

     One likes him none the less—rather, one likes him the more; since its faults are due to his very virtues.

   • 1909 April, Louise Fanshawe Gregory, ““The Little Dog-Boy””, in St. Nicholas: An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks, volume XXXVI, number 6, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co.; London: Frederick Warne & Co., page 497:

     His favorite toys were pencils and brushes, for he early learned to paint. But he was none the less a boy for being an artist, and so Edwin and his brothers had fun together, as a picture he painted in these play-days suggests.