conditional
/kənˈdɪʃ.ə.nəl/ adjective C1- Limited by a condition. · I made my son a conditional promise: I would buy him a bike if he kept his room tidy.
- Stating that one sentence is true if another is true. · "A implies B" is a conditional statement.
- Expressing a condition or supposition. · a conditional word, mode, or tense
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Darcy chose to doubt it--or to treat it as a merely conditional recommendation, and to assert that I had forfeited all claim to it by extravagance, imprudence, in short, anything or nothing.
Similarly insidious is the conditional apology, often manifesting in the familiar refrain expressing sorrow if you were offended.
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