no less

From Middle English no lesse, na leasse. Compare none the less and Old English nōhte þon lǣssa (“none the less”).

no less (not comparable)

1. Even, furthermore, not to mention.

   He graduated this year — at the top of his class, no less!

   • 2013 October 12, Stephanie Merritt, “Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy by Helen Fielding – review”, in The Observer‎, →ISSN:

     By making her a widow, Fielding allows Mark Darcy to remain as implausibly perfect in death as he was in life (killed by a landmine while negotiating the release of aid workers in Sudan, no less), […]

2. (literally) Just as, equally, as much/many as, not less, none the less.

   Diet sodas are no less unhealthy than regular ones.

   The driver had drunk no less than eight pints of beer.

• as well
• more so

• “no less” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.

• Elsons, Slones, lesson, nosels, nosles, solens