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

Cocke and I have felt it in our bones—Gammer Gurton's Needle With adversative or disjunctive connectives.

From An English Grammar by Sewell, James Witt

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

But is termed the adversative coördinate conjunction because it usually introduces something adverse to what has already been said.

From Composition-Rhetoric by Brooks, Stratton D.

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