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Notwithstanding vs In_spite_of - What's the difference?

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Notwithstanding is a synonym of in_spite_of.


As prepositions the difference between notwithstanding and in_spite_of

is that notwithstanding is in spite of, despite while in_spite_of is (idiomatic) despite, irrespective of, notwithstanding.

As an adverb notwithstanding

is nevertheless, all the same.

As a conjunction notwithstanding

is although.

As a noun notwithstanding

is an instance of the word "notwithstanding", often characteristic of legalese.

notwithstanding

English

Alternative forms

* noughtwithstanding (obsolete and rare)

Adverb

(-)
  • Nevertheless, all the same.
  • * 1599 , , i 4:
  • But notwithstanding , man,
    I'll do you your master what good I can;
    *

    Synonyms

    * (nevertheless) all the same, nevertheless, nonetheless

    Conjunction

    (English Conjunctions)
  • Although.
  • * 1724 , , ch. 30:
  • 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;
    *

    Usage notes

    * The conjunction is sometimes expressed in the form notwithstanding that''''', as in "the front was nearly four miles in advance, '''notwithstanding that the men marched three abreast" (Dickens, ''Barnaby Rudge , ch. 49. See .).

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • In spite of, despite.
  • * 2014 , Richard Rae, " Manchester United humbled by MK Dons after Will Grigg hits double", The Guardian , 26 August 2014:
  • Van Gaal’s dismissal of his ability to play a central role notwithstanding , Shinji Kagawa began playing just behind the strikers Danny Welbeck and Javier Hernández.
  • * Dr. H. More
  • Those on whom Christ bestowed miraculous cures were so transported that their gratitude made them, notwithstanding his prohibition, proclaim the wonders he had done.
  • * 1826 , , ch. 26:
  • Notwithstanding the high resolution of Hawkeye he fully comprehended all the difficulties and danger he was about to incur.
  • * 1679 , 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 .
    *

    Usage notes

    * Often used after its complement, the etymology of its name notwithstanding.

    Synonyms

    * (in spite of) despite, in spite of, maugre

    Derived terms

    * notwithstanding clause (Canada)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An instance of the word "notwithstanding", often characteristic of legalese.
  • * 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 .
    English calques English postpositions

    in_spite_of

    English

    Preposition

  • (idiomatic) Despite, irrespective of, notwithstanding.
  • * 1898 , Henry James, The Turn of the Screw , Courier Dover Publications (1991), ISBN 0486266842, page 72,
  • No evening I had passed at Bly had the portentous quality of this one; in spite of' which—and '''in spite''' also ' of the deeper depths of consternation that had opened beneath my feet—there was literally, in the ebbing actual, an extraordinarily sweet sadness.

    Usage notes

    * (term) is at once three words and one preposition; as may be seen in the 1898 quotation above, it is not separated during preposition-stranding (hence “in spite of which in spite”), but it may sometimes be separated by an adverb (as in “in spite also of”). * The phrase is often misused where regardless of would be appropriate.

    Derived terms

    * in spite of oneself