adversative

Example Sentences

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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

Now, nothing, on the other hand, could be more adversative to this, than the conduct, temper, and principles of his brother and sister.

From The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by Carleton, William

They are sometimes adversative; sometimes they are simply cumulative.

From Study of the King James Bible by McAfee, Cleland Boyd

"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 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

The word especially is used for a term of distinction, even in those places where the adversative but is not joined to it, as in Tit. i.

From The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London by