adversative
Example Sentences
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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
But the conjunction is often omitted in copulative and adversative clauses, as in Sec.
From An English Grammar by Sewell, James Witt
They are sometimes adversative; sometimes they are simply cumulative.
From Study of the King James Bible by McAfee, Cleland Boyd
The common relations between sentences indicated by conjunctions are coördinative, subordinative, adversative, concessive, and illative.
From English: Composition and Literature by Webster, W. F. (William Franklin)
Other words of an adversative nature are yet, however, nevertheless, only, notwithstanding, and still.
From Composition-Rhetoric by Brooks, Stratton D.
