"not but" meaning in All languages combined

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          "ref": "1717, Alexander Pope, A Discourse on Pastoral Poetry:",
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          "text": "[H]e did not fail to be extremely disconcerted at his first entrance into a scene of life to which he was totally a stranger. Not but that he met with abundance of people in the country […].",
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          "ref": "1768, Isaac Bickerstaff, Lionel and Clarissa:",
          "text": "Not but your father has good qualities, and I assure you I remember him a very fine gentleman himself.",
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          "ref": "1792, Jane Austen, ‘Lesley Castle’, Juvenilia:",
          "text": "This was the only very severe thing I ever said in my Life; not but that I have often felt myself extremely satirical but it was the only time I ever made my feelings public.",
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          "text": "I believe you they dread him. Not but what he's artful, even in his defiance of them.",
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        "(now rare, archaic) Introducing a subordinate clause, frequently with that: \"it is not that (the following clause) is not the case\"."
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