apodosis

American  

[uh-pod-uh-sis] / əˈpɒd ə sɪs /

noun

• apodoses
  plural

1. the clause expressing the consequence in a conditional sentence, often beginning with then, as “then I will” in “If you go, then I will.”

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apodosis British  

/ əˈpɒdəsɪs /

noun

1. logic grammar the consequent of a conditional statement, as the game will be cancelled in if it rains the game will be cancelled Compare protasis

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• apodoses
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of apodosis

1630–40; < Late Latin < Greek: a returning, answering clause, equivalent to apo ( di ) dó ( nai ) to give back ( apo- apo- + didónai to give) + -sis -sis

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Example Sentences

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apodosis

It consists of two parts, a protasis and an apodosis.

From The Simpkins Plot by George A. Birmingham

They say that the apodosis begins with the first כן, and that in ver.

From Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions. Vol. 2 by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg

What are we to suppose the suppressed apodosis of the proposition?

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 by Various

Positing what protasis would the contraction for such several schemes become a natural and necessary apodosis?

From Ulysses by James Joyce

The apodosis of an implied condition: 'If you prayed for me, the fire would rise'.

From The Last Poems of Ovid by Mark Bear Akrigg

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