English

Conjunction

albethey

1. (rare, nonstandard) Although; despite (them, multiple things) being.
   • 1963, International Peace Research Association, International Peace Research Newsletter, vol. 14: 1– 6, p38

     Men felt that they were being deliberately excluded, other women felt this was the “separatist élitism” of which the women’s movement is so often accused. When a group of men did join us for a couple of sessions, there was a complete change in dynamic: it was necessary to have a chairperson, and to some of us it became clear yet again, that it is almost impossible to talk about your oppression with the oppressors (albethey potential or unconscious oppressors).

   • 1972, M. Abel of the East Asia Christian Conference, The Asian Meaning of Modernization: East Asia Christian Conference Studies, p136

     But we would submit that it is going much too far to claim that all secularization arises from biblical influences — albethey indirect or incognito in many cases.

   • 1976, European Centre for Leisure and Education, Society and Leisure, p97 (The Centre)

     When, for example, asked what they favoured most about living in the area, a number of residents mentioned “open spaces” (albethey vanishing) and “horses” (stabled at a nearby riding school).

   • 1977, Gileon Holroyd, Studies in Library Management, p97 (Shoe String Pr Inc, ISBN 0208015477)

     The absence of any well established union structure can severely inhibit and possibly damage a service standard by virtue of the resultant inaction on behalf of inadequately motivated staff. This will arise whenever there is a situation where the library policy is controlled by non-professionals, albethey democratically elected laymen, or whenever the library director is involved with policy making: both these factors have already been broached in a quotation above (29).

   • 2005, Laurence F. R. Grove, Text/Image Mosaics in French Culture: Emblems and Comic Strips, p108 (Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.; ISBN 0754634884 (10), ISBN 978-0754634881 (13))

     …typical early issue of Le Journal de Mickey from the 1930s,³ of the six ‘bandes dessinées’ ⁴ four have domestic settings, albethey American. The strip entitled Pim Pam Poum (The Katzenjammer Kids), for example, revolves around the rude awakening elderly members of the family receive as a result of a goat being introduced into their bedroom.

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