Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The main clause of a conditional sentence, as The game will be canceled in The game will be canceled if it rains.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In grammar, the concluding part of a conditional sentence; the consequent which results from or is dependent on the protasis, or condition; the conclusion.
- noun In the Gr. Ch., the last day of a church festival when prolonged throughout several days.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Gram.) The consequent clause or conclusion in a conditional sentence, expressing the
result , and thus distinguished from theprotasis or clause which expresses acondition . Thus, in the sentence, “Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him,” the former clause is theprotasis , and the latter theapodosis .
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- noun logic, grammar The
consequential clause in aconditional sentence .
Etymologies
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Examples
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This style of prothesis without apodosis is very common in Arabic and should be preserved in translation, as it adds a naïveté to the style.
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The apodosis is at Job 22: 25, Then shall the Almighty be, &c. God will take the place of the wealth, in which thou didst formerly trust. gold -- rather, "precious" or "glittering metal," parallel to "(gold) of
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The use of de to mark the apodosis, which is found occasionally in classical authors from Homer downwards, is rare in the LXX.
A Grammar of Septuagint Greek 1856-1924 1905
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We have seen that both propositions of her protasis are false, and now for the apodosis.
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To offer a grammatical example, it would be like someone pronouncing a protasis and not following it with an apodosis.
Archive 2008-02-01 papabear 2008
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To offer a grammatical example, it would be like someone pronouncing a protasis and not following it with an apodosis.
Archive 2008-02-03 papabear 2008
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Positing what protasis would the contraction for such several schemes become a natural and necessary apodosis?
Ulysses 2003
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[642] The apodosis is here wanting in the original, but must evidently be supplied in some such way as above.
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001
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[822] Some read, "since I have," leaving out the following "for," and finding the apodosis in "I hope to salute you."
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001
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We have also supplied a clause, in order to avoid the extreme length of the sentence in the original, which runs on without any apodosis to the words anankaion hegesamen, "I have judged it necessary."
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001
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