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Concessive

adjective
1.
Of or pertaining to concession.





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"Concessive" Quotes from Famous Books



... i.e. they were glad to be free from a danger which (though remotely) threatened themselves, as the next sentence explains. I can see no good reason for taking the participle [Greek: polemoumenoi] as concessive ...
— The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 2 • Demosthenes
... F of F—A this is followed by a series of other gloomy concessive clauses which have been scored out to the advantage ...
— Mathilda • Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
... the tenderest malice, but it obtained no concessive sign. Alicia seemed to weigh it. "I think I like theories better than illustrations," she ...
— The Path of a Star • Mrs. Everard Cotes (AKA Sara Jeannette Duncan)


Words linked to "Concessive" :   concession, concede


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