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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Apodosis \A*pod"o*sis\, noun [L., fr. Gr. ?, fr. ? to give back; ? from, back again + ? to give.] (Gram.) The consequent clause or conclusion in a conditional sentence, expressing the result, and thus distinguished from the protasis or clause which expresses a condition. Thus, in the sentence, ''Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him,'' the former clause is the protasis, and the latter the apodosis.
Note: Some grammarians extend the terms protasis and apodosis to the introductory clause and the concluding clause, even when the sentence is not conditional.
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