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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"Optative" Quotes from Famous Books — The First Four Books of Xenophon's Anabasis • Xenophon — The Literary Remains Of Samuel Taylor Coleridge • Edited By Henry Nelson Coleridge — Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays • Bertrand Russell |
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