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Definition of: optative
(op′tə·tiv) adjective
1. Expressing or indicative of desire or choice.
2. Gram. Denoting that mood in Greek and certain other languages which expresses wish or desire.
—noun Gram.
1. The optative mood.
2. A word or construction in this mood. [<MF, fem. of optatif <LL optativus <L optare wish]
—op′·ta·tive·ly adverb
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