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Meanings of optative mood in English

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

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Examples for "optative"
Examples for "optative"
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Thus much, if it may please your Lordship, was in the optative mood.
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Or the indicative in place of the optative, as (I. ii.
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And, on the contrary, the optative for the indicative, as (I. v. 388):-
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Fondness for optative in indirect constructions, i.
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It is masculine, feminine, and neuter in gender, singular by nature, and generally accusative, and it is optative in mood and full of acute accents.
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Usage of optative mood in English
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Thus much, if it may please your Lordship, was in the optative mood.
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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.
Deductive Logic
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"For lovers," he said sagely, "are either in the optative mood, the desperative, or the exultative." This time he had used the optative.
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