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Meanings of precative in English

Expressing entreaty or supplication.

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Examples for "precatory"
1
Then, last month, he made a precatory proposal for a shareholder vote on a larger buy back.
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2
A precatory proposal -or shareholder resolution -is a non-binding request for a shareholder vote on a particular stock plan.
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Before long the precatory form of absolution is replaced by the indicative form by which the priest declared the sinner absolved.
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