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Optative

noun
1.
A mood (as in Greek or Sanskrit) that expresses a wish or hope; expressed in English by modal verbs.  Synonym: optative mood.





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... consequence can be gathered, that Adam was taught the names of all Figures, Numbers, Measures, Colours, Sounds, Fancies, Relations; much less the names of Words and Speech, as Generall, Speciall, Affirmative, Negative, Interrogative, Optative, Infinitive, all which are usefull; and least of all, of Entity, Intentionality, Quiddity, and other significant ...
— Leviathan • Thomas Hobbes


Words linked to "Optative" :   mode, option, Hellenic Republic, Ellas, Greece, opt, Sanskritic language, mood, Sanskrit, modality, grammar


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