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disjunctive

1. Logic relating to, characterized by, or containing disjunction
2. Logic a disjunctive proposition; disjunction
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Decidedly not: I am the man to see my way through a neat succession of alternatives; and here they are:
-- My alternatives and her plans are both overthrown together.
The only alternative, therefore, appeared to be, return and seek the Indian bands scattered along the small rivers above the mountains.
Hunt announced to his men the dreary alternative he had adopted, and preparations were made to take Mr.
Under these circumstances, but one alternative was left.
It pains me, really and truly pains me, to be compelled to deceive her--but the other alternative is to reveal myself as the wretch of whom she is in search.
Holmcroft, how can you, with your sound judgment, place the sad alternatives now before him on the same level?
Placed between those two cruel alternatives, which could I choose?
The doubt lay, as usual, between two alternatives. Which course would it be wisest to take?--to inform Anne, by that day's post, that an interval of forty-eight hours must elapse before his father's recovery could be considered certain?
But to feel that she was alive, and Phoebus also, meant that tortures, shocks, alternatives, life, were beginning again.
Equinor Absheron AS will help develop alternative energy in Azerbaijan, Trend reports with reference to the country's energy ministry on February 25.
The channel will provide information on alternative routes in case of traffic jams.
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