adversative
Example Sentences
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Ginsburg explicitly said it “may be assumed” that most women did not want to go through the adversative model of VMI.
From Slate ● Jun. 30, 2026
Companies that in the past had an adversative relationship with conservation groups have begun to take actions that are more than public relations.
From Time Magazine Archive
He is not their landlord, nor are they his tenants; and so far from their interests being in any way reciprocal, they are actually adversative.
From The Emigrants Of Ahadarra The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two by William Carleton
Hence it only remains to ascribe the judgment to him as the causa principalis.—If the three angels were equals, it would be impossible to explain the adversative clause in chap. xviii.
From Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg
The adversative particle refers to the two first lines.
From Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies by Arthur Sherbo
