qualification

Roget-categorie 469

4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties
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#469. Qualification

zelfstandig naamwoord

qualification, limitation, modification, coloring.
allowance, grains of allowance, consideration, extenuating circumstances — mitigation.
condition, proviso, prerequisite, contingency, stipulation, provision, specification, sine qua non [Lat.] — catch, string, strings attached — exemption — exception, escape clause, salvo, saving clause — discount etc. 813 — restriction — fine print.

werkwoord

qualify, limit, modify, leaven, give a color to, introduce new conditions, narrow, temper.
waffle, quibble, hem and haw (be uncertain) 475 — equivocate (sophistry) 477.
depend, depend on, be contingent on (effect) 154.
allow for, make allowance for — admit exceptions, take into account — modulate.
moderate, temper, season, leaven.
take exception.

bijvoeglijk naamwoord

qualifying etc. v. — qualified, conditioned, restricted, hedged — conditional — exceptional etc. (unconformable) 83.
hypothetical etc. (supposed) 514 — contingent etc. (uncertain) 475.

bijwoord

provided, provided that, provided always — if, unless, but, yet — according as — conditionally, admitting, supposing — on the supposition of etc. (theoretically) 514 — with the understanding, even, although, though, for all that, after all, at all events.
approximately etc. 197, 17 — in a limited degree (smallness) 32 — somewhat, sort of, something like that, to a certain extent, to a degree, in a sense, so to speak.
with grains of allowance, cum grano salis [Lat.], with a grain of salt — exceptis excipiendis [Lat.] — wind and weather permitting — if possible etc. 470.
subject to, conditioned upon — with this proviso etc. n..

uitdrukking

if the good lord is willing and the creeks don't if the good lord is willing and the creeks don't rise —" catch- 22.

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