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Word Meanings - CONCESSIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Implying concession; as, a concessive conjunction. Lowth.

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  • AUSPICIOUS
    1. Having omens or tokens of a favorable issue; giving promise of success, prosperity, or happiness; predicting good; as, an auspicious beginning. Auspicious union of order and freedom. Macaulay. 2. Prosperous; fortunate; as, auspicious years.
  • CONCESSIVELY
    By way of concession.
  • LIBERALIZE
    To make liberal; to free from narrow views or prejudices. To open and to liberalize the mind. Burke.
  • FAVORABLE
    1. Full of favor; favoring; manifesting partiality; kind; propitious; friendly. Lend favorable ears to our request. Shak. Lord, thou hast been favorable unto thy land. Ps. lxxxv. 1. 2. Conducive; contributing; tending to promote or facilitate;
  • PARTIALISM
    Partiality; specifically , the doctrine of the Partialists.
  • PARTIALITY
    1. The quality or state of being partial; inclination to favor one party, or one side of a question, more than the other; undue bias of mind. 2. A predilection or inclination to one thing rather than to others; special taste or liking;
  • LIBERALISTIC
    Pertaining to, or characterized by, liberalism; as, liberalistic opinions.
  • PERMISSIVE
    1. Permitting; granting leave or liberty. "By his permissive will." Milton. 2. Permitted; tolerated; suffered. Milton.
  • FRIENDLY
    1. Having the temper and disposition of a friend; disposed to promote the good of another; kind; favorable. 2. Appropriate to, or implying, friendship; befitting friends; amicable. In friendly relations with his moderate opponents. Macaulay. 3.
  • INDULGENTLY
    In an indulgent manner; mildly; favorably. Dryden.
  • CONCESSIVE
    Implying concession; as, a concessive conjunction. Lowth.
  • LIBERALIZATION
    The act of liberalizing.
  • PARTIAL
    Pertaining to a subordinate portion; as, a compound umbel is made up of a several partial umbels; a leaflet is often supported by a partial petiole. Partial differentials, Partial differential coefficients, Partial differentiation, etc.
  • ADVANTAGEOUSNESS
    Profitableness.
  • LIBERALIST
    A liberal.
  • INDULGENTIAL
    Relating to the indulgences of the Roman Catholic Church. Brevint.
  • PARTIALIZE
    To make or be partial.
  • PROPITIOUS
    augury meaning, flying forward or well; cf. Skr. pat to fly, E. 1. Convenient; auspicious; favorable; kind; as, a propitious season; a propitious breeze. 2. Hence, kind; gracious; merciful; helpful; -- said of a person or a divinity. Milton.
  • LIBERALIZER
    One who, or that which, liberalizes. Emerson.
  • PARTIALIST
    One who holds that the atonement was made only for a part of mankind, that is, for the elect. (more info) 1. One who is partial.
  • ILLIBERALISM
    Illiberality.
  • ILLIBERALNESS
    The state of being illiberal; illiberality.
  • IMPARTIAL
    Not partial; not favoring one more than another; treating all alike; unprejudiced; unbiased; disinterested; equitable; fair; just. Shak. Jove is impartial, and to both the same. Dryden. A comprehensive and impartial view. Macaulay.
  • UNFAVORABLE
    Not favorable; not propitious; adverse; contrary; discouraging. -- Un*fa"vor*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*fa"vor*a*bly, adv.
  • IMPARTIALIST
    One who is impartial. Boyle.
  • OVERLIBERAL
    Too liberal.
  • UNFRIENDLY
    1. Not friendly; not kind or benevolent; hostile; as, an unfriendly neighbor. 2. Not favorable; not adapted to promote or support any object; as, weather unfriendly to health. -- Un*friend"li*ness, n.
  • UNPARTIAL
    Impartial. Bp. Sanderson. -- Un*par"tial*ly, adv. Hooker.

 

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