Optatives

Word OPTATIVES
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Definitions and meanings of "Optatives"

What do we mean by optatives?

(grammar) A mood of verbs found in some languages (e.g. Sanskrit, Old Prussian, Ancient Greek), used to express a wish. English does not have inflectional optative forms.

(grammar) A verb or expression in the optative mood.

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The word "optatives" in example sentences

˜Would that everybody desired that not-X!™, and the desires expressed by these two optatives are not compossible, or at least, are only compossible on the condition that we all have inconsistent desires (both for X and for not-X). ❋ Pigden, Charles (2007)

As such the two optatives contradict each other, not because they describe incompatible facts but because they prescribe incompatible states of affairs. ❋ Pigden, Charles (2007)

Judgments that this or that is good or bad were to be construed as disguised optatives ❋ Pigden, Charles (2007)

But Russell is better placed to meet this difficulty, since in his view judgments about what is ultimately good and bad are disguised optatives, designed to express desires or wishes of a certain kind. ❋ Pigden, Charles (2007)

Even 'the college prizeman, and the college tutor cannot read a chorus in the Trilogy but what his mind instinctively wanders on optatives, choriambi, and that happy conjecture of Smelfungus in the antistrophe.' [ ❋ Various (N/A)

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