although

although
although early 14c., althagh, compound of ALL (Cf. all) + THOUGH (Cf. though), showing once-common emphatic use of all. "All though was originally more emphatic than though, but by 1400 it was practically only a variant of it, and all having thus lost its independent force, the phrase was written as one word" [OED].

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