Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of the nature of or containing a concession.
- adjective Grammar Expressing concession, as the conjunction though.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of the nature of or containing a concession or an admission, as the surrender of some disputed or disputable point.
- Specifically, in grammar, marking or stating a condition as something which may be granted without destroying a conclusion: as, a concessive particle; a concessive sentence.
- noun A particle implying concession. See I.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Implying concession.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, pertaining to, or being a
concession ;conceding
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or pertaining to concession
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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AG: I welcome tremendously the concessive and inclusive attitude of people who have a faith and say they want to co-exist with other people who have [no] faith, [who] cherry-pick the best bits of their religion and leave the undesirable bits, the anti-gay, the anti-women, the burn-them-at-the-stake bits.
Is religion a force for good... or would we be happier without God? Anushka Asthana 2010
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Wherever they're on the back foot, they suddenly become very friendly, very concessive and very tolerant.
Is religion a force for good... or would we be happier without God? Anushka Asthana 2010
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‘Though’ has other roles than that of concessive subordinator which it shares with ‘although’.
On anacolutha DC 2009
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Hence the significance of ˜concessive knowledge attributions™
Epistemic Contextualism Rysiew, Patrick 2007
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I mean, as we discussed, what you see in that film is the shockwave, the concessive wave of that massive detonation washing over our camera position.
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-- A conditional or a concessive clause takes a verb in the indicative mode when the action or being is assumed as a fact, or when the uncertainty lies merely in the speaker's knowledge of the fact.
Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition Brainerd Kellogg
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-- _However_ modifies _strongly_, and connects a concessive clause.
Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition Brainerd Kellogg
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In the conditional clause of (3) and in the concessive clause of (4) the raining is thought of as a mere contingency.
Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition Brainerd Kellogg
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It was the tenderest malice, but it obtained no concessive sign.
Hilda A Story of Calcutta Sara Jeannette Duncan
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When does a conditional or a concessive clause require the verb to be in the indicative?
Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition Brainerd Kellogg
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