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1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Unless \Un*less"\, conj. [Formerly, onles, onlesse onlesse that that is in less in a less case. See {On}, and {Less}.] Upon any less condition than (the fact or thing stated in the sentence or clause which follows); if not supposing that not if it be not were it not that except; as we shall fail unless we are industrious. Note: By the omission of the verb in the dependent clause, unless was frequently used prepositionally, -- a construction common in Shakespeare and still employed colloquially. Here nothing breeds unless the nightly owl. --Shak.
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