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conjunction

If conj.

In case that; granting, allowing, or supposing that; introducing a condition or supposition. "Tisiphone, that oft hast heard my prayer, Assist, if OEdipus deserve thy care." "If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread."

Whether; in dependent questions. "Uncertain if by augury or chance." "She doubts if two and two make four."

As if, But if. See under As, But.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"If" Quotes from Famous Books

... sermon Evelyn heard very little.... It was the phrase that if we look into our lives we shall find that our most painful moments are due to our having followed the doctrine of the world instead of the doctrine of Christ that touched Evelyn. It seemed to explain things in herself which she had never understood. It told ...

— Evelyn Innes • George Moore

... whiter than a sheet. He said he guessed his throat was all right, and he wouldn't come near me again that day. The next day Pa came in and I was laying for him. I took a white seidletz powder and a blue one, and dissolved them in separate glasses, and when Pa came in I asked him if he didn't want some lemonade, and he said he did, and I gave him the sour one and he drank it. He said it was too sour, and then I gave him the other glass, that looked like water, to take the taste out of his mouth, ...

— Peck's Bad Boy and His Pa - 1883 • George W. Peck

... many squires The Bruce had been selected; 10 And Gordon, fairest of them all, By Ellen was rejected. Sad tidings to that noble Youth! For it may be proclaimed with truth, If Bruce hath loved sincerely, 15 That Gordon ...

— The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Vol. II. • William Wordsworth

... written that "want is the parent of industry, and wretchedness the mother of ingenuity." I know that you have often approved and rewarded the ingenious productions of my emigrated countrymen in England; but here their labours and their endeavours are disregarded; and if they cannot or will not produce anything to flatter the pride or appetite of the powerful or rich upstarts, they have no other choice left but beggary or crime, meanness or suicide. How many have I heard repent of ever returning to a country ...

— Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud, Complete - Being Secret Letters from a Gentleman at Paris to a Nobleman in London • Lewis Goldsmith

... subsidies from Moscow and of markets for its products. Tajikistan thus depends on aid from Russia and Uzbekistan and on international humanitarian assistance for much of its basic subsistence needs. Even if the peace agreement of June 1997 is honored, the country faces major problems in integrating refugees and former combatants into the economy. Moreover, constant political turmoil and the continued dominance by former communist ...

— The 1998 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

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