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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
apodosis
 
SYLLABICATION:a·pod·o·sis
PRONUNCIATION:  -pd-ss
NOUN:Inflected forms: pl. a·pod·o·ses (-sz)
The main clause of a conditional sentence, as The game will be canceled in The game will be canceled if it rains.
ETYMOLOGY:Late Latin, from Greek, from apodidonai, to give back : apo-, apo- + didonai, to give; see d- in Appendix I.
 
 
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