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Word Meanings - UNLESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Upon any less condition than (the fact or thing stated in the sentence or clause which follows); if not; supposing that not; if it be not; were it not that; except; as, we shall fail unless we are industrious. Note: By the omission of the verb in

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Upon any less condition than (the fact or thing stated in the sentence or clause which follows); if not; supposing that not; if it be not; were it not that; except; as, we shall fail unless we are industrious. Note: By the omission of the verb in the dependent clause, unless was frequently used prepositionally, -- a construction common in Shakespeare and still employed colloquially. Here nothing breeds unless the nightly owl. Shak.

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    1. Intrinsic. 2. Intimate; closely familiar. Sir H. Wotton.
  • SPONTANEOUS
    1. Proceding from natural feeling, temperament, or disposition, or from a native internal proneness, readiness, or tendency, without constraint; as, a spontaneous gift or proportion. 2. Proceeding from, or acting by, internal impulse, energy, or
  • REGULARITY
    The condition or quality of being regular; as, regularity of outline; the regularity of motion.
  • NATURALIST
    1. One versed in natural science; a student of natural history, esp. of the natural history of animals. 2. One who holds or maintains the doctrine of naturalism in religion. H. Bushnell.
  • NATURAL STEEL
    Steel made by the direct refining of cast iron in a finery, or, as wootz, by a direct process from the ore.
  • CONSISTENTLY
    In a consistent manner.
  • REGULARIA
    A division of Echini which includes the circular, or regular, sea urchins.
  • NATURAL
    Belonging to, to be taken in, or referred to, some system, in which the base is 1; -- said or certain functions or numbers; as, natural numbers, those commencing at 1; natural sines, cosines, etc., those taken in arcs whose radii are 1. (more info)
  • PROBABLE
    1. Capable of being proved. 2. Having more evidence for than against; supported by evidence which inclines the mind to believe, but leaves some room for doubt; likely. That is accounted probable which has better arguments producible for it than
  • NATURALNESS
    The state or quality of being natural; conformity to nature.
  • INTRINSIC
    A genuine quality. Warburton.
  • INTRINSICALNESS
    The quality of being intrinsical; intrinsicality.
  • EVENTUALLY
    In an eventual manner; finally; ultimately.
  • INTRINSICALLY
    Internally; A lie is a thing absolutely and intrinsically evil. South.
  • INTRINSICATE
    Intricate. Shak.
  • CONSISTENT
    1. Possessing firmness or fixedness; firm; hard; solid. The humoral and consistent parts of the body. Harvey. 2. Having agreement with itself or with something else; having harmony among its parts; possesing unity; accordant; harmonious; congruous;
  • EVENTUALITY
    Disposition to take cognizance of events. (more info) 1. The coming as a consequence; contingency; also, an event which comes as a consequence.
  • NATURALISM
    The doctrine of those who deny a supernatural agency in the miracles and revelations recorded in the Bible, and in spiritual influences; also, any system of philosophy which refers the phenomena of nature to a blind force or forces acting
  • NATURALLY
    In a natural manner or way; according to the usual course of things; spontaneously.
  • ORIGINAL
    1. Pertaining to the origin or beginning; preceding all others; first in order; primitive; primary; pristine; as, the original state of man; the original laws of a country; the original inventor of a process. His form had yet not lost
  • SUPERNATURALNESS
    The quality or state of being supernatural.
  • IRREGULARITY
    The state or quality of being irregular; that which is irregular.
  • ABORIGINALLY
    Primarily.
  • PRETERNATURALITY
    Preternaturalness. Dr. John Smith.
  • SUBNORMAL
    That part of the axis of a curved line which is intercepted between the ordinate and the normal.
  • INCONSISTENTLY
    In an inconsistent manner.
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    1. To make natural; as, custom naturalizes labor or study. 2. To confer the rights and privileges of a native subject or citizen on; to make as if native; to adopt, as a foreigner into a nation or state, and place in the condition of
  • SUPERNATURAL
    Being beyond, or exceeding, the power or laws of nature; miraculous. Syn. -- Preternatural. -- Supernatural, Preternatural. Preternatural signifies beside nature, and supernatural, above or beyond nature. What is very greatly aside from the ordinary
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    Not conformed to rule or system; deviating from the type; anomalous; irregular. "That deviating from the type; anomalous; irregular. " Froude.
  • SUPERNATURALISM
    The doctrine of a divine and supernatural agency in the production of the miracles and revelations recorded in the Bible, and in the grace which renews and sanctifies men, -- in opposition to the doctrine which denies the agency of any other than
  • ABORIGINAL
    1. First; original; indigenous; primitive; native; as, the aboriginal tribes of America. "Mantled o'er with aboriginal turf." Wordsworth. 2. Of or pertaining to aborigines; as, a Hindoo of aboriginal blood.

 

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