Citations:notwithstanding

Adverb

 * 1594 — Willliam Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, iii 2
 * But, notwithstanding, haste; make no delay: We may effect this business yet ere day.
 * 1599 — Willliam Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, i 4
 * I am glad he is so quiet: if he had been throughly moved, you should have heard him so loud and so melancholy. But notwithstanding, man, I'll do you your master what good I can;
 * 1857 — Charlotte Brontë, The Professor, ch. 11
 * "You have not seen her looking down then?" said he. "No." "It is a treat, notwithstanding."

Conjunction

 * 1594 — Willliam Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, i 3
 * The man is, notwithstanding, sufficient.
 * 1594 — Willliam Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, iii 2
 * Notwithstanding, use your pleasure; if your love do not persuade you to come, let not my letter.
 * 1690 — Thomas Browne, A Letter to a Friend
 * And therefore the Stoicks could not but think that the firy Principle would wear out all the rest, and at last make an end of the World, which notwithstanding without such a lingring period the Creator may effect at his Pleasure: and to make an end of all things on Earth, and our Planetical System of the World, he need but put out the Sun.
 * 1724 — Daniel Defoe, Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress, ch. XXX
 * Upon which Amy had said, that notwithstanding I was angry with her and had used her so hardly for saying something about her of the same kind, yet there was an absolute necessity of securing her and removing her out of the way;
 * 1775 — John Adams, Novanglus Essays, no. 10
 * Another instance to show, that the king, by his sole authority, whenever he pleased, made regulations for the government of Ireland, notwithstanding it was annexed and subject to the crown of England, is the ordinatio facta pro statu terrae Hiberniae, in the 31 Edward I., in the appendix to Ruffhead’s statutes.
 * 1830 — Book of Mormon, Mormon 2:1
 * And notwithstanding I being young, was large in stature; therefore the people of Nephi appointed me that I should be their leader, or the leader of their armies.
 * 1841 — Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge, ch. 49
 * That which went through the City greatly exceeded the others in number, and was of such prodigious extent that when the rear began to move, the front was nearly four miles in advance, notwithstanding that the men marched three abreast and followed very close upon each other.
 * ...There was silence immediately—even among the people in the passages without, and on the other staircases, who could neither see nor hear, but to whom, notwithstanding, the signal was conveyed with marvellous rapidity.
 * 1861 — Francis Colburn Adams, An Outcast, ch. XII
 * And notwithstanding Mr. Soloman is forever sounding Mr. Keepum's generosity, the said Keepum has a singular faculty for holding with a firm grasp all he gets, the extent of his charities being a small mite now and then to Mr. Hadger, the very pious agent for the New York Presbyterian Tract Society.
 * , — Emily Dickinson, To do a magnanimous thing
 * Not to do a magnanimous thing Notwithstanding it never be known Notwithstanding it cost us existence once Is Rapture herself spurn —
 * 1918 — John Muir, Steep Trails, ch. XII
 * To the farmer who comes to this thirsty land from beneath rainy skies, Nevada seems one vast desert, all sage and sand, hopelessly irredeemable now and forever. And this, under present conditions, is severely true. For notwithstanding it has gardens, grainfields, and hayfields generously productive, these compared with the arid stretches of valley and plain, as beheld in general views from the mountain tops, are mere specks lying inconspicuously here and there, in out-of-the-way places, often thirty or forty miles apart.

Preposition

 * 1776 — Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, Book I, ch. 1
 * The corn of Poland, in the same degree of goodness, is as cheap as that of France, notwithstanding the superior opulence and improvement of the latter country.
 * 1779 — David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, part 12
 * You, in particular, CLEANTHES, with whom I live in unreserved intimacy; you are sensible, that notwithstanding the freedom of my conversation, and my love of singular arguments, no one has a deeper sense of religion impressed on his mind, or pays more profound adoration to the Divine Being, as he discovers himself to reason, in the inexplicable contrivance and artifice of nature.
 * 1788 — James Madison, Federalist Papers No. 58
 * Notwithstanding the equal authority which will subsist between the two houses on all legislative subjects, except the originating of money bills, it cannot be doubted that the House, composed of the greater number of members, when supported by the more powerful States, and speaking the known and determined sense of a majority of the people, will have no small advantage in a question depending on the comparative firmness of the two houses.
 * 1826 — James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans, ch. 26
 * Notwithstanding the high resolution of Hawkeye he fully comprehended all the difficulties and danger he was about to incur.
 * 1841 — Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge, ch. 49
 * The noise continued, notwithstanding his appearance, until Gashford looked round.
 * 1901 — Swami Vivekananda, The Religion we are born in
 * First, in discussing the scriptures, one fact stands out prominently — that only those religions which had one or many scriptures of their own as their basis advanced by leaps and bounds and survive to the present day notwithstanding all the persecution and repression hurled against them.
 * 1938 — H. P. Lovecraft, Ibid
 * His remains, notwithstanding the troubled state of Italy, were taken to Ravenna for interment;
 * 1949 — Constitution of India, Article 331
 * Notwithstanding anything in article 81, the President may, if he is of opinion that the Anglo-Indian community is not adequately represented in the House of the People, nominate not more than two members of that community to the House of the People.

Postposition

 * 1679 — Habeas Corpus Act, section 11
 * And be it declared and enacted by the authority aforesaid, that an Habeas Corpus, according to the true intent and meaning of this act, may be directed and seen in any county Palatine, the Cinque Ports, or other privileged places within the Kindgom of England, dominion of Wales, or town of Berwick upon Tweed, and the islands of Jersey and Guernsey; any law or usage to the contrary notwithstanding.
 * 1876 — Henry M. Robert, Robert's Rules of Order, Parliamentary Law
 * Thus in every American deliberative assembly having no rules for conducting business, the motion to adjourn would be decided to be undebatable, as in Congress, the English parliamentary law to the contrary notwithstanding.

Noun

 * 2003, Banesh Hoffmann, The Tyranny of Testing (page 53)
 * It is not for nothing that our language has its ifs and buts, its yets and howevers, its neverthelesses and notwithstandings, its possiblies and probablies and perhapses, and its on-the-other-hands.
 * 2004, Trevor Carolan, Down in the Valley: Writing in British Columbia (page 107)
 * Letters from the English usually contained very formally typed documents with lots of heretofores and whereases and notwithstandings.
 * 2010, Richard Marcinko, Red Cell (page 149)
 * The agreements were filled with wheretofores and herebys and hereafters and notwithstandings.