Adverb
Alternative form of nonetheless
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see none, the, less.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgA man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. Lysander Spooner
Let us have "sweet girl graduates" by all means. They will be none the less sweet for a little wisdom; and the "golden hair" will not curl less gracefully outside the head by reason of there being brains within. Thomas Henry Huxley
The belief that it is useless to employ partial and palliative means against radical evils, because they only remedy them in part, is an article of faith never preached unsuccessfully by meanness to simplicity, but it is none the less absurd. Theodor Mommsen
Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Remember that to change your mind and follow him who sets you right is to be none the less free than you were before. Marcus Aurelius
In a crystal we have the clear evidence of the existence of a formative life-principle, and though we cannot understand the life of a crystal, it is none the less a living being. Nikola Tesla