or else

1. Otherwise or as an alternative.

   Go now, or else you'll have to stay all night.

   • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC ↗; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act (please specify |act=I or II), scene ii ↗:

     If you wil willingly remaine with me,
     You ſhall haue honors, as your merits be:
     Or els you ſhal be forc’d with ſlauerie.

   • c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act IV, scene i]:

     He shall do this, or else I do recant / The pardon that I late pronounced here.

• French: sinon
• German: sonst, anders, andernfalls
• Italian: altrimenti, se no
• Portuguese: senão, caso contrário
• Russian: ина́че

• Portuguese: senão
• Spanish: o verás