proviso

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He feared "a design to confer the right of suffrage upon the negro," and urged that a proviso should be accepted "restricting the meaning of the words 'civil rights and immunities.'"

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  1. noun A clause in a document making a qualification, condition, or restriction.

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  • I now stated the motive I had when I gave the deed with a proviso, and said that removing the building was a wrong step for our commission to take, in view of the proviso. —  A Woman's Life-Work
  • He feared "a design to confer the right of suffrage upon the negro," and urged that a proviso should be accepted "restricting the meaning of the words 'civil rights and immunities.'" —  History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States
  • He argued that the proviso was not needed to prevent slavery in the newly gotten district, while its passage would be a wanton provocation to the South From this moment Massachusetts dropped him. —  History of the United States, Volume 3 (of 6)
  • New Mexico and Utah were to be organized as Territories without the proviso, and were made powerless to legislate on slavery till they should become States. —  History of the United States, Volume 3 (of 6)
  • The City petitioned that a proviso might be added to the Bill allowing such importation "by way of donation and charitable loane," but December came and parliament still withheld its assent.—See copies of City’s answer to letter from Ireland preserved in Town Clerk’s office; also Repertory 72, fos. —  London and the Kingdom - Volume II
 

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  1. Middle English, from Medieval Latin prōvīsō (quod), provided (that), from Latin prōvīsō, ablative of prōvīsus, past participle of prōvidēre, to provide; see provide.

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  1. So called from its being usually introduced in the original Latin wording by the word proviso, ‘it being provided’; L., ablative singular neuter of provisus, past participle of providere, provide: see provide. Cf. provided.
 

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