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
The adversative particle refers to the two first lines.
From Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies by Sherbo, Arthur
They accordingly emphasize the adversative idea, and are properly Subordinate Adversative Clauses.
From New Latin Grammar by Bennett, Charles E. (Charles Edwin)
"Or" here is not the adversative conjunction but an entirely different word, an archaic variant of "ere," meaning "before."
From Coleridge's Ancient Mariner and Select Poems by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
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)
