adversative
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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.
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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 Hengstenberg, Ernst Wilhelm
They accordingly emphasize the adversative idea, and are properly Subordinate Adversative Clauses.
From New Latin Grammar by Bennett, Charles E. (Charles Edwin)
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 Carleton, William
The word especially is used for a term of distinction, even in those places where the adversative but is not joined to it, as in Tit. i.
From The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London by