Proviso

(n.) An article or clause in any statute, agreement, contract, grant, or other writing, by which a condition is introduced, usually beginning with the word provided; a conditional stipulation that affects an agreement, contract, law, grant, or the like; as, the contract was impaired by its proviso.

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• The only proviso that Justinian made was that the women, on their arrival, should keep out of musket-shot and not risk their lives. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• Jerry added, by way of proviso. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• But socialism has never gone on to a thorough examination of that proviso for efficient administration. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Always with the proviso that Podsnap will rally round him, Veneering thinks it is so. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• This proviso might have sounded rather satirically in Will's ear if he had been in a mood to care about such satire. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.

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