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| Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922. |
| Class IV. Words Relating to the Intellectual Faculties |
| Division (I) Formation of Ideas |
| Section III. Materials for Reasoning |
| 469. Qualification. |
| NOUN: | QUALIFICATION, limitation, modification, coloring. ALLOWANCE, grains of allowance, consideration, extenuating circumstances; mitigation. CONDITION, proviso, exception; exemption; salvo [rare], saving clause; discount [See Discount]; restriction. |
| VERB: | QUALIFY, limit, modify, affect, leaven, take color from, give a color to, introduce new conditions, narrow, temper. ALLOW FOR, make allowance for; admit exceptions, take into account; modulate. TAKE EXCEPTION, file exceptions, object, raise objections, rise to a point of order. |
| ADJECTIVE: | QUALIFYING &c. v.; modificatory, extenuatory, mitigatory, lenitive, palliative; conditional; exceptional (unconformable) [See Unconformity]. HYPOTHETICAL (supposed) [See Supposition]; contingent (uncertain) [See Uncertainty]. |
| ADVERB: | PROVIDED, - always; if, unless, but, yet; according as; conditionally, admitting, supposing; on the supposition of (theoretically) [See Supposition]; with the understanding, even, although, though, for all that, after all, at all events. IF POSSIBLE [See Possibility]; with grains of allowance, cum grano salis [L.]; exceptis excipiendis [L.], wind and weather permitting. SUBJECT TO; with this proviso &c. n. |
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