How To Use Precative In A Sentence
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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
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Mr. Plowman was physically unable to utter the deprecative ejaculation which he knew should have been here inserted.
Anthony Lyveden
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Overly contemplative, fairly self-deprecative, and slightly worrisome and unsettled.
The One Where I Wish I Hadn't Woken Up
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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
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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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Rational Review
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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.
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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
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In personal appearance he was a sort of Emerson gone to weed ... he walked about with a quick, perky, deprecative step ....
Tramping on Life
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He has a proposition for James, which he puts to him in deprecative terms typical of their mutual origins.
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But his precision and appearance of keen prosperity and sufficiency made me act, in spite of myself, deprecative.
Tramping on Life
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The perfects ( 'asithi and hizkartssni) are converted and so become hortative or precative futures.
Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1
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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.
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Aside from the inheritance proper, a will could contain legacies whereby things were bequeathed by a single title and by express words; they could be imperative or precative.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
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He is the rarest kind of supersalesman: an uncomplicated man who is genuinely deprecative of himself and sold on his product.
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Mike said something deprecative of his own efforts and took the package.
Unwise Child
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These traditions, unspoken though they are, generate a competitive tension which leads to the use of deprecative gossip and other acts meant to sabotage a comrade competitor's status.
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Her remarks were merely deprecative and full of pity.
Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa
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Called on to answer for the unseemly fact of its existence in the midst of these modern centuries, when the world boasts of human freedom and progression, it began by blushing for its hideous aspect and uttering feeble and deprecative apologies.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 6, December 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
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How did the mere hortative manage to exist alongside the deprecative?
Languagehat.com: GO TO, THOU ART A FOOLISH FELLOW.
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It has as its mortal enemies the deprecative and the depressing.
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Thalhofer (Liturgik, I, 48) has sought to draw a presumption of late date from the form of absolution in n. 29, which is indicative and not precative, absolvimus te vice beati Petri etc.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
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The common academic view of popular music is at best deprecative.
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How did the mere hortative manage to exist alongside the deprecative?
Languagehat.com: GO TO, THOU ART A FOOLISH FELLOW.
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Usually the translations give a different turn to the first words of v. 14 than the original allows for: they make the perfect a precative -- an impossibility -- "but think on me" (A.
Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1
