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precative

ADJECTIVE
  1. expressing entreaty or supplication
    precatory overtures

How To Use precative In A Sentence

  • Fidei-commissa were created by precative words addressed to the conscience of the heir, and were at first not legally enforceable. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
  • Mr. Plowman was physically unable to utter the deprecative ejaculation which he knew should have been here inserted. Anthony Lyveden
  • Overly contemplative, fairly self-deprecative, and slightly worrisome and unsettled. The One Where I Wish I Hadn't Woken Up
  • Bruce Waltke points out that the use of this form to express a wish (the “precative”) can be recognized contextually by its parallelism with the other volitive forms (Waltke-O’Connor, Hebrew Syntax, 30.5.4d). Solomon’s Song of Love
  • odd" uses of SC1, such as the precative perfect or the prophetic perfect, are claimed to appear in poetry. Ralph the Sacred River
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  • You've got to accentuate the hortative, eliminate pejoratives, latch on to the deprecative, and don't mess with Mr. In-Between. Languagehat.com: GO TO, THOU ART A FOOLISH FELLOW.
  • In a future post, time permitting, I might go into these issues and also the question of the prophetic perfect and the precative perfect as poetic usages of SC2, but this necessarily brief survey gives the general idea. Ralph the Sacred River
  • In personal appearance he was a sort of Emerson gone to weed ... he walked about with a quick, perky, deprecative step .... Tramping on Life
  • He has a proposition for James, which he puts to him in deprecative terms typical of their mutual origins.
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