none the less

none the less (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of nonetheless
   • 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.