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Definition of Adversatively
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Adversatively
Literary usage of Adversatively
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A practical introduction to Latin prose composition by Thomas Kerchever Arnold (1844)
"220. e) Et is also used adversatively : ie to connect notions of •which the latter
... Et stands adversatively between two imperatives, of which the second ..."
2. Gesenius' Hebrew Grammar by Wilhelm Gesenius, Thomas Jefferson Conant, Emil Roediger (1856)
"Only ""S is used, d) adversatively after a negation, but (on the contrary),—prop,
but it is because ; eg thou shall not take a wife for my son from the ..."
3. A New English Grammar, Logical and Historical by Henry Sweet (1900)
"There are several half-conjunctions used adversatively, such as still, nevertheless,
however, only, ..."
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