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• adversative — adjective Date: 15th century expressing antithesis, opposition, or adverse circumstance < the adversative conjunction but > • adversative noun • adversatively adverb …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• adversative — [ad vʉr′sə tiv, ədvʉr′sə tiv] adj. [LL adversativus < L adversatus, pp. of adversari, to be opposed to < adversus, ADVERSE] Gram. expressing opposition or antithesis, as the words but, yet, however n. an adversative word …   English World dictionary

• adversative asyndeton — Rhet. a staccato effect produced by omitting adversative connectives from between two or more items forming a group, as in I liked all there was to buy in the store ... I didn t get anything. Cf. copulative asyndeton. * * * …   Universalium

• adversative asyndeton — Rhet. a staccato effect produced by omitting adversative connectives from between two or more items forming a group, as in I liked all there was to buy in the store ... I didn t get anything. Cf. copulative asyndeton …   Useful english dictionary

• adversative conjunction — noun the conjunctive relation of units that expresses the opposition of their meanings • Hypernyms: ↑conjunction …   Useful english dictionary

• Conditional preservation of the saints — The Five Articles of Remonstrance Conditional election Unlimited atonement Total depravity …   Wikipedia

• Socrates and the beginnings of moral philosophy — Hugh H.Benson INTRODUCTION Cicero in Tusculan Disputations famously tells us that Socrates first called philosophy down from the sky, set it in cities and even introduced it into homes, and compelled it to consider life and morals, good and evil …   History of philosophy

• However — How*ev er, conj. Nevertheless; notwithstanding; yet; still; though; as, I shall not oppose your design; I can not, however, approve of it. [1913 Webster] In your excuse your love does little say; You might howe er have took a better way. Dryden.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Japanese language — Language spoken by about 125 million people on the islands of Japan, including the Ryukyus. The only other language of the Japanese archipelago is Ainu (see Ainu), now spoken by only a handful of people on Hokkaido, though once much more… …   Universalium

• oppositive — adjective expressing antithesis or opposition the adversative conjunction but in poor but happy • Syn: ↑adversative • Similar to: ↑disjunctive …   Useful english dictionary

• Originalism — Scene at the Signing of the Constitution of the United States, by Howard Chandler Christy …   Wikipedia