adversative
Example Sentences
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Ginsburg explicitly said it “may be assumed” that most women did not want to go through the adversative model of VMI.
From Slate ● Jun. 30, 2026
Companies that in the past had an adversative relationship with conservation groups have begun to take actions that are more than public relations.
From Time Magazine Archive
But the conjunction is often omitted in copulative and adversative clauses, as in Sec.
From An English Grammar by James Witt Sewell
"Or" here is not the adversative conjunction but an entirely different word, an archaic variant of "ere," meaning "before."
From Coleridge's Ancient Mariner and Select Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Other words of an adversative nature are yet, however, nevertheless, only, notwithstanding, and still.
From Composition-Rhetoric by Stratton D. Brooks
