WITHAL

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Despite anything to the contrary (usually preceding a concession)

Example:

granted that it is dangerous, all the same I still want to go

Synonyms:

all the same; at the same time; even so; however; nevertheless; nonetheless; notwithstanding; still; withal; yet

Classified under:

Adverbs

Sense 2

Meaning:

Together with this

Classified under:

Adverbs

Credits

Context examples:

When our first emotion was over, and he sat before the fire with the children on his knees, and the blaze shining on his face, he looked, to me, as vigorous and robust, withal as handsome, an old man, as ever I had seen.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He was a large-muscled, stolid sort of a man, in whom little imagination was coupled with immense initiative, and who possessed, withal, loyalty and affection as sturdy as his own strength.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

There was mild protest in his pale blue eyes, and withal a timid frankness and manliness that quite won me to him.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I have seen him a score of times, at table, insulting this hunter or that, with cool and level eyes and, withal, a certain air of interest, pondering their actions or replies or petty rages with a curiosity almost laughable to me who stood onlooker and who understood.