Apodosis

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Apodosis \A*pod"o*sis\, n. [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.
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     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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