| 单词 | optative mood |
| 释义 | optative mood (once / 656629 pages) n WORD FAMILY optative mood: optative moods USAGE EXAMPLESThus much, if it may please your Lordship, was in the optative mood. Mabie, Hamilton Wright, Library of the World's Best Literat...(2010) The Imperative and Optative moods clearly do not convey assertions at all, while the Subjunctive can only figure as a subordinate member of some assertion. Stock, St. George William Joseph, Deductive Logic(2010) n a mood (as in Greek or Sanskrit) that expresses a wish or hope; expressed in English by modal verbs Syn|Hyper optative modality, mode, mood verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker |
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