withal
EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- withall (archaic)
EtymologyEdit
From Middle English withal, withalle; equivalent to with + all, used in place of earlier Old English mid ealle.
PronunciationEdit
PostpositionEdit
withal
- (archaic) Synonym for with, appearing at the end of a clause or sentence, after the object.
- 1844, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Rappaccini's Daughter[1]:
- [He has] produced new varieties of poison, more horribly deleterious than Nature […] would ever have plagued the world withal.
QuotationsEdit
- For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:withal.
AdverbEdit
withal (not comparable)
- (archaic) All things considered; nevertheless; besides[1]
- 1907, Parker, Gilbert, The Weavers:
- Yet, withal, David was the true altruist.
- 1898, Churchill, Winston, chapter 2, in The Celebrity:
- Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. […] A silver snaffle on a heavy leather watch guard which connected the pockets of his corduroy waistcoat, together with a huge gold stirrup in his Ascot tie, sufficiently proclaimed his tastes. […] But withal there was a perceptible acumen about the man which was puzzling in the extreme.
- 1918, Burroughs, Edgar Rice, The Land that Time Forgot[2], HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2008:
- So-al was a mighty fine-looking girl, built like a tigress as to strength and sinuosity, but withal sweet and womanly.
- (obsolete) With this; with that.
- c. 1589-93, Shakespeare, William, The Two Gentlemen of Verona[3], Act II, Scene vii:
- […] I fear me he will scarce be pleased withal.
- c. 1610-11, Shakespeare, William, The Tempest[4], Act III, Scene i:
- So glad of this as they I cannot be,
Who are surpris'd withal, but my rejoicing
At nothing can be more. […]
QuotationsEdit
- For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:withal.
SynonymsEdit
- (all things considered): even so, nonetheless; see also Thesaurus:nevertheless