"not but" meaning in All languages combined

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Conjunction [English]

Head templates: {{en-conjunction}} not but
  1. (now rare, archaic) Introducing a subordinate clause, frequently with that: "it is not that (the following clause) is not the case". Tags: archaic
    Sense id: en-not_but-en-conj-s70N9AgB Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry
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          "ref": "1717, Alexander Pope, A Discourse on Pastoral Poetry:",
          "text": "Spenser's Calendar, in Mr Dryden's opinion, is the most complete work of this kind which any nation has produced ever since the time of Virgil. Not but that he may be thought imperfect in some few points.",
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          "ref": "1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:",
          "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.",
          "type": "quote"
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        {
          "ref": "1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter VI, in Great Expectations […], volume II, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 94:",
          "text": "I believe you they dread him. Not but what he's artful, even in his defiance of them.",
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          "ref": "1717, Alexander Pope, A Discourse on Pastoral Poetry:",
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          "ref": "1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter VI, in Great Expectations […], volume II, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 94:",
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