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Definition of Adversative conjunction
1. Noun. The conjunctive relation of units that expresses the opposition of their meanings.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Adversative Conjunction
Literary usage of Adversative conjunction
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sentence Connection in Tacitus by Clarence Whittlesey Mendell (1911)
"... expressed at other times by an adversative conjunction, than to say that when
contrast alone is employed, an adversative conjunction is omitted. ..."
2. Every-day Words and Their Uses: A Guide to Correct Diction by Robert Palfrey Utter (1916)
"It is an adversative conjunction, introducing a statement contrary to, or
contrasting with, the preceding one. It has many shades of meaning, and many uses, ..."
3. A Manual of Logic by James Welton (1896)
"... Proposition —union of two affirmative propositions by an adversative conjunction.
*75. Compound Categorical Propositions. We have now to consider cases ..."
4. How to Parse.: An Attempt to Apply the Principles of Scholarship to English by Edwin Abbott Abbott (1892)
"In Modern English it will be advisable to treat " but," when thus used, as an
adversative conjunction, as though the sentence ran, " He had not fully heard ..."
5. A History of Greece: From the Earliest Period to the Close of the Generation by George Grote (1888)
"Moreover, in the sense proposed by Dr. Arnold, we should surely find an adversative
conjunction in place of *-<-u. Most of the critics translate ..."
6. History of Greece by George Grote (1850)
"... we ought to have an adversative conjunction instead of KOI before ... we should
surely find an adversative conjunction in place of xal. ..."
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