Crossword-Solution: OPTATIVE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Optative | a. | Expressing desire or wish. |
| Optative | n. | Something to be desired. |
| Optative | n. | The optative mood; also, a verb in the optative mood. |
We have 5 clues for the answer “OPTATIVE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Designating a verb mood. | 1 answer |
| EXPRESSING a wish | 1 answer |
| Expressing wish. | 1 answer |
| WISH mood of expression | 1 answer |
| indicating or expressing choice, preference, or wish | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who elects, or has the right of choice; a person who
is entitled to take part in an election, or to give his vote in favor
of a candidate for office.
Hint 2 anagram
TOECELR
Hint 3 another clue
A BALLOT CAST BY A VOTER WHO VOTES FOR ALL THE CANDIDATES OF ONE PARTY
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Sentences with OPTATIVE (5)
Light Choiseul, a clever man, but an unwise, of the sort called "dashing," had entertained the matter merely in the optative form,--and when it came nearer, wished to use it for making mischief between Pitt and Friedrich, and for worming out Edelsheim's secrets, if he had any,--for which reason he finally threw Edelsheim into the Bastille for a few days.
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.
Some would find a first and a third person imperative in such sentences as "Now tread _we_ a measure"; "_Perish_ the _thought_." But these verbs express strong wish or desire and by some grammarians are called "optative subjunctives." "Perish the thought" = "May the thought perish," or "I desire that the thought may perish," or "Let the thought perish."] INFINITIVES.
The subjunctive, therefore, does not depend upon _quin_, but upon the optative meaning of the sentence.
With verbs of _wishing_, _desiring_, especially cupiō, optō, volō, mālō (conjunctions ut, nē, ut nē); as,-- optō ut in hōc jūdiciō nēmō improbus reperiātur, _I hope that in this court no bad man may be found_ (here ut reperiātur represents a simple optative of direct statement, viz.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1958–1964).