Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
but if en · CCONJ
Meanings
(obsolete) Unless.
And therewithall he swange oute a swerde and seyde, ‘But yf thou telle me all who hath ben here, now shalt thou dey!’ 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book VIII:
Ne living aide for her on earth appeares, / But-if the heavens helpe to redresse her wrong, / Moved with pity of her plenteous teares. 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC: