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
Cocke and I have felt it in our bones—Gammer Gurton's Needle With adversative or disjunctive connectives.
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
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
