It was the tenderest malice, but it obtained no concessive sign.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hilda A Story of Calcutta] Reference

Hence the significance of ˜concessive knowledge attributions™.    From Wordnik.com.  [Epistemic Contextualism] Reference

When does a conditional or a concessive clause require the verb to be in the indicative?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference

‘Though’ has other roles than that of concessive subordinator which it shares with ‘although’.    From Wordnik.com.  [On anacolutha] Reference

Wherever they're on the back foot, they suddenly become very friendly, very concessive and very tolerant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is religion a force for good... or would we be happier without God?] Reference

In the conditional clause of (3) and in the concessive clause of (4) the raining is thought of as a mere contingency.    From Wordnik.com.  [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 2, 2006] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference

A rather negative, or at best, concessive attitude toward recreation and a disposition to rest satisfied with the denunciation of harmful institutions and activities militates against her greatest usefulness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Minister and the Boy A Handbook for Churchmen Engaged in Boys' Work] Reference

Of twelve articles of an act said to be concessive, eight are prohibitory and restrictive; and a municipal officer, or any other person "in place or office," may controul at his pleasure all religious celebrations.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Complete Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners] Reference

He indulged in a concessive lie for the sake or the peace.    From Wordnik.com.  [We Can't Have Everything] Reference

In all such concessive sentences the subjunctive is necessary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Le Petit Chose (part 1) Histoire d'un Enfant] Reference

Without good reason K.C. makes lakhen concessive -- "nevertheless.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1] Reference

I've just read Dougherty and Rysiew's piece on concessive knowledge attributions in PPR (here).    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Tonk] Reference

~Grant they be so~: a concessive clause = granted that the evils turn out to be what you imagined.    From Wordnik.com.  [Milton's Comus] Reference

Apparently, the difficulty can be settled as K.C. proposes by taking gam, "even," in a concessive sense.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1] Reference

It supplies the reason why Judah speaks so respectfully; K.C. makes the clause concessive, but without good reason.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1] Reference

It has always come to something in the way of a concessive or expedient mitigation of the antagonistic principle of personal authority.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation] Reference

The common relations between sentences indicated by conjunctions are coördinative, subordinative, adversative, concessive, and illative.    From Wordnik.com.  [English: Composition and Literature] Reference

M'Clutchy, in preferring his own corruption to that of the parson, was guilty of a complete desertion of that sterling and mutually concessive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two] Reference

Now, the advantage of conferring with this particular master was, that he was not pig-headed on the one hand, nor unduly concessive, as he deemed some of his fellow-tradesmen to be, on the other.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis] Reference

Of twelve articles of an act said to be concessive, eight are prohibitory and restrictive; and a municipal officer, or any other person “in place or office,” may controul at his pleasure all religious celebrations.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Residence in France During the Years 1792 1793 1794 and 1795]

But neither an energetic general governor, a concessive board of trustees, nor the zealous bearers of a fresh and fiery spiritual code could establish the philanthropic or commercial success of the proprietary colony of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference

And the British terms of adhesion, or rather of initiation of such a league, therefore, will have to constitute the core of the structure, on which details may be adjusted and to which concessive adjustments will have to be made by all the rest.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation] Reference

It may be concessive, as in Alright, I’ll come with you—or diffident, as in How’re things?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-04-01] Reference

= Co. = A concessive particle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Annals of the Cakchiquels] Reference

I said, 'You're too concessive.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Annie Kilburn : a Novel] Reference

(concessive) response to the objection.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Correspondence Theory of Truth] Reference

concessive, 308.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Latin Grammar] Reference

With concessive, 278.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Latin Grammar] Reference

Perf. concessive, 278.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Latin Grammar] Reference

I think we're too concessive. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Annie Kilburn : a Novel] Reference

Volitive (hortatory, jussive, probibitive, deliberative, concessive), 273 f.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Latin Grammar] Reference