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Definition of Only when
1. Adverb. Never except when. "Call me only if your cold gets worse"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Only When
Literary usage of Only when
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Honorary chaplains "outside the city " are those who assist the pope only when
he is outside Rome. The honorary private chaplains were instituted by Pope ..."
2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1919)
"While such an effort, under the law, may succeed, it can do so only when, under
the evidence, which is so strong and convincing and satisfactory that the ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"The arrangement was discontinued at Poughkeepsie in 1899, only when the superintendent
of public instruction intervened, and rendered a decision adverse to ..."