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Definition of Concessive
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to concession.
Definition of Concessive
1. a. Implying concession; as, a concessive conjunction.
Definition of Concessive
1. Adjective. Of, pertaining to, or being a concession; conceding ¹
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Definition of Concessive
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Concessive
Literary usage of Concessive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges: Founded on by Joseph Henry Allen, James Bradstreet Greenough, Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge (1903)
"Ph. 952), / don't know: only I am sure that I haven't told anybody. concessive
CLAUSES 526. The concessive idea is rather vague and general, ..."
2. A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by Albert Harkness (1892)
"A concessive clause is one which concedes or admits something, ... concessive clauses
take— I. Generally the Indicative in the best prose, when introduced ..."
3. A Practical Introduction to Latin Prose Composition by Thomas Kerchever Arnold (1908)
"Qui—CAUSAL AND concessive. 509. Qui is also used both in a causal and a concessive
sense; and in each of these is joined with the subjunctive on the ..."
4. An English Grammar: Methodical, Analytical, and Historical. With a Treatise by Eduard Adolf Ferdinand Maetzner (1874)
"To the hypothetical relation in the widest sentence belongs also the concessive
sentence. The concession has the character of a condition granted, ..."
5. A Reference Grammar of Classical Tamil Poetry: 150 B.C.-Pre-Fifth/Sixth by V. S. Rajam (1992)
"The concessive of supposition can be translated as 'even if X ... The action/state
indicated by the concessive of supposition precedes and results in its ..."
6. The Mother Tongue by Sarah Louise Arnold, George Lyman Kittredge, John Hays Gardiner (1901)
"CAUSAL AND concessive CLAUSES. 580. An adverbial clause may express Cause.
The shepherd fled because he teas afraid of the ..."
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