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conjunction

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1.
Except on a specified condition; if not.
I’m leaving unless I get a pay rise.
You can't go out unless it stops raining.
Unless part of the staff, you are not allowed beyond this point.
2.
If not; used with counterfactual conditionals.
Who would know of Alexander or Caesar, or would respect the Stoics or the Peripatetics, unless they had been distinguished by the memorials of writers?
Unless He were omnipotent, we could not be sure of His ability to bless us.
3.
Except if; used with hypothetical conditionals.
Q. If Lieutenant P. had given the word "Fire," would you have fired, and at what?—A. I should not have known, unless he had told me what to fire at.
Suppose Breugel had done the whole painting with no legs. Then, titled as it is, it would be mystifying, unless someone were to say: the boy has fallen in the waters and they have closed over him, calm is restored, life goes on (as in The Israelites Crossing the Red Sea).

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Trái nghĩa

ifexcept on a condition if

Cùng gốc / liên quan

precisely unlessunlesssunless and untiluntil and unlessunless and until, until and unless

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Nguồn gốc từ

of on upon in un- less From Middle English unlesse, earlier on lesse (modern on + less), from (not) on lesse (than) ((not) on a less compelling condition (than)). The quality of negation in the word and the lack of stress changed on to un-.