NOUN
- a mood (as in Greek or Sanskrit) that expresses a wish or hope; expressed in English by modal verbs
How To Use optative mood In A Sentence
- The old neoplatonic shadow of what Emerson in ‘The Transcendentalist’ calls an ‘optative mood,’ reconciling textual particular and idealist consciousness, is not as far away here as one might initially imagine.
- This is not simply to avoid criticisms of judgment speech by translating it from the indicative to the optative mood.
- Greek has a particular mood called the optative mood. Archive 2008-12-14
- Thus the importance to it of the subjunctive or optative mood. Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy