Meaning of but that | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Except that.
   archaic, poetic
2. Were it not that.
   archaic, literary
3. So that.
   archaic, poetic
4. Following not so, an elaboration of that.
   literary, poetic

Examples

“After the master of the house found there was no remedy, but that he, his wife, and his children were to be locked up with this poor distempered servant[…]”

“He would be wholly a Christian, but that he is something of an atheist, and wholly an atheist, but that he is partly a Christian; and a perfect heretic, but that there are so many to distract him.”

“For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.”

“Here I found that the ship was bulged, and had a great deal of water in her hold, but that she lay so on the side of a bank of hard sand, or, rather earth, that her stern lay lifted up upon the bank, and her head low, almost to the water.”

“[…]the present is not so glorious but that I should not wish to dwell a little in the past.”

CEFR level