eligibility

qualification, limitation, modification, coloring., allowance, grains of allowance, consideration, extenuating circumstances; mitigation., condition, proviso, exception; exemption; salvo, saving clause; discount; restriction.

qualify, limit, modify, leaven, give a color to, introduce new conditions, narrow, temper., allow for, make allowance for; admit exceptions, take into account; modulate., take exception.

qualifying; conditional; exceptional (unconformable)., hypothetical (supposed); contingent (uncertain).

provided, provided always; if, unless, but, yet; according as; conditionally, admitting, supposing; on the supposition of (theoretically); with the understanding, even, although, though, for all that, after all, at all events., with grains of allowance, cum grano salis; exceptis excipiendis; wind and weather permitting; if possible., subject to; with this proviso