| apodosis |
| Definition:
The clause in a conditional sentence that expresses the consequence. Note: The clause that expresses the condition is called the protasis. |
| Example: In the sentence "If you loved me back, I would love you forward," the protasis is "If you loved me back" and the apodosis is "I would love you forward." |
| Etymology: The word derives from the Greek apodidomi, give back (from the Greek apo, from or away + didomi, give). |
| OED: The first OED citation is from 1638: "Let us consider a little of the Protasis [‘Even so hath the Lord ordained, that they which preach the Gospel’], whereof the words I have now read [‘should live of the Gospel’] are the Apodosis. "
(Mede Wks. i. xxi. 77) |