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adversative
[ ad-vur-suh-tiv ]
adjective
- expressing contrariety, opposition, or antithesis:
鈥淏ut鈥 is an adversative conjunction.
noun
- an adversative word or proposition.
adversative
/ 蓹诲藞惫蓽藧蝉蓹迟瑟惫 /
adjective
- (of a word, phrase, or clause) implying opposition or contrast. But and although are adversative conjunctions introducing adversative clauses
noun
- an adversative word or speech element
Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms
- 补诲路惫别谤顎僺补路迟颈惫别路濒测 adverb
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of adversative1
Example Sentences
Virginia had argued that its 鈥渁dversative鈥 method of educating young men to be citizen-soldiers through a physically challenging curriculum was unsuited for young women.
We are made to sympathize with his terrible anguish, as the logic of his remorse-throbbing conscience leads him to the bitter adversative: "But 'tis too late鈥攁ll hope is past."
Hence it only remains to ascribe the judgment to him as the causa principalis.鈥擨f the three angels were equals, it would be impossible to explain the adversative clause in chap. xviii.
The common relations between sentences indicated by conjunctions are co枚rdinative, subordinative, adversative, concessive, and illative.
Without the adversative, the colon is to be preferred: "Prosperity showeth vice: adversity, virtue."
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