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provisos |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Proviso \Pro*vi"so\, n.; pl {Provisos}. [L., it being provided, abl. of provisus, p. p. of providere. See {Provide}, and cf {Purview}.] 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. He doth deny his prisoners, But with proviso and exception. --Shak.
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