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Meanings of optative mood in inglês

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

Usage of optative mood in inglês
1
Thus much, if it may please your Lordship, was in the optative mood.
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2
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.
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3
"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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