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 &c 813; restriction; fine print.
V. 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.
Adj. qualifying &c v.; qualified, conditioned, restricted, hedged;
conditional; exceptional &c (unconformable) 83.
hypothetical &c (supposed) 514; contingent &c (uncertain) 475.
Adv. provided, provided that, provided always; if, unless, but, yet;
according as; conditionally, admitting, supposing; on the supposition
of &c (theoretically) 514; with the understanding, even, although,
though, for all that, after all, at all events.
approximately &c 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 &c 470.
subject to, conditioned upon; with this proviso &c n..
Phr. if the good lord is willing and the creeks don't rise; catch- 22.
Degrees of Evidence