| 单词 | concessive |
| 释义 | concessive (once / 211060 pages) adj WORD FAMILY concessive: concessively+/concede: conceded, concedes, conceding, concession, concessive/concession: concessions USAGE EXAMPLES"Oh!" said Louise, in the concessive tone people use, when they do not know but they have wronged some one. Howells, William Dean, The Quality of Mercy(2010) The common relations between sentences indicated by conjunctions are coördinative, subordinative, adversative, concessive, and illative. Webster, W. F. (William Franklin), English: Composition and Literature(2010) It has always come to something in the way of a concessive or expedient mitigation of the antagonistic principle of personal authority. Veblen, Thorstein, An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace...(2010) adj of or pertaining to concession |
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