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Webster 1913 Edition


Apodosis


A-pod′o-sis

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Noun.
[L., fr. Gr. [GREEK], fr. [GREEK] to give back; [GREEK] from, back again + [GREEK] to give.]
(Gram.)
The consequent clause or conclusion in a conditional sentence, expressing the result, and thus distinguished from the protasis or clause which expresses a condition. Thus, in the sentence, “Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him,” the former clause is the protasis, and the latter the apodosis.
☞ Some grammarians extend the terms protasis and apodosis to the introductory clause and the concluding clause, even when the sentence is not conditional.

Webster 1828 Edition


Apodosis

APOD'OSIS

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Noun.
[Gr.] The application or latter part of a similitude.

Definition 2024


apodosis

apodosis

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Noun

apodosis (plural apodoses)

  1. (logic, grammar) The consequential clause in a conditional sentence.
    In "I will be coming if this weather holds up", "I will be coming" is the apodosis.

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