Literary notes about Adverse (AI summary)
In literature, the word "adverse" is used to convey notions of opposition, challenge, or unfavorable conditions across a wide variety of contexts. It appears in legal discussions to denote conditions contrary to rightful claims or the rules of possession, as seen in discussions of title by adverse possession ([1], [2], [3]). In epic and poetic narratives, "adverse" often characterizes harsh natural forces or doomed destinies, such as adverse winds steering the course of events or the inescapable grip of fate ([4], [5], [6]). Philosophical and political texts employ it to describe situations that conflict with established ideals or to critique prevailing opinions, whether in relation to material conditions or moral judgments ([7], [8], [9]). The term is similarly used to denote oppositional attitudes, as when individuals or groups display resistance to particular doctrines or policies ([10], [11]). Overall, "adverse" serves as a versatile adjective that enriches the narrative by highlighting conditions or forces that oppose progress, pleasure, or justice.
- prescripción f prescription, title by adverse possession, gaining of title by adverse possession.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós - 66 5 prescripción : by Justinian's code, twenty years' adverse possession of an absent person's real estate makes the occupant the owner.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós - I have just mentioned the case of gaining a right by prescription, when neither party has complied with the requirement of twenty years' adverse use.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes - Already we see an adverse wind blowing the flames away.
— from The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 - But, the cape doubled, adverse winds prevail'd.
— from The Odyssey by Homer - The adverse winds in leathern bags he braced, Compress'd their force, and lock'd each struggling blast.
— from The Odyssey by Homer - They make a sparing use of big words; they are said to be adverse to the word "truth" itself: it has a "high falutin'" ring.
— from The Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - The future principle of English politics will not be a levelling principle; not a principle adverse to privileges, but favourable to their extension.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Earl of Beaconsfield Benjamin Disraeli - If the equality of conditions is favorable to purity of morals, the social commotion by which conditions are rendered equal is adverse to it.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville - reparaciones , f. pl. , critical observations or remarks; notes; adverse criticism.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson - The two critics have a slight bias, the Frenchman adverse, the Italian favorable, to the republic.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
