单词 | adversatively |
释义 | adversativelyadv. In an adversative manner; so as to express opposition. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > [adverb] witherc1200 contrariouslyc1380 overthwartlya1425 adversarilyc1475 incontrary1488 incontrair?a1500 contrairly1535 thwartly1558 adversatively1571 sinisterlya1600 kim-kam1603 antagonistically1610 cross1614 oppositively1622 thwarta1628 counter1643 reverse1649 counter-bias1656 contrariwise1682 contrarily1781 antipathetically1818 opposingly1842 hostilely1876 the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > other grammatical categories or concepts > [adverb] > expressing opposition adversatively1571 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of structure or thought > [adverb] > by antithesis adversatively1571 1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (xviii. 17) i. f. 60/2 It [sc. a Hebrew word] myght also bee expounded adversatively [L. aduersatiue], that though Davids enemies had overmatched him, yit was hee saved neverthelesse. a1623 H. Swinburne Treat. Spousals (1686) 100 [It] standeth adversatively establishing the contrary. 1738 R. Erskine Great Ruin & Great Relief 6 In our Reading, But in me is thy Help, it seems not to run argumentatively, but adversatively, as the opposite of the former Clause of the Verse. 1763 W. Crookshank tr. H. Witsius Oeconomy of Covenants (new ed.) II. iii. viii. 548 The particle but is in scripture often taken adversatively, to denote but only. 1814 J. Jamieson Hermes Scythicus 186 The terms would come to be applied adversatively. 1859 L. Grout Isizulu ii. v. 156 This form is also used in connection with the simple, sometimes adversatively, and sometimes for the sake of variety of expression. 1919 Jrnl. Educ. (Univ. of Boston School of Educ.) 6 Feb. 151/2 I put the matter of continuance to a vote and three out of 120 voted adversatively. 1999 M. Rissanen in Cambr. Hist. Eng. Lang. III. 312 In Early Modern English... as in Present-Day English, while can be used adversatively. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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