Hortative vs Optative - What's the difference?
hortative | optative |
(comparable) Urging, exhorting, or encouraging.
* 1854 , "The Preaching Required by the Times" (Editorial), The National Magazine , New York, vol. 4, no. 1 (Jan.), pp. 79-80.
(grammar, not comparable) Of a mood or class of imperative subjunctive moods of a verb for giving strong encouragement.
(grammar) A mood or class of imperative subjunctive moods of a verb for giving strong encouragement.
expressing a wish or a choice.
(grammar) related or pertaining to the optative mood.
(grammar) a mood of verbs found in some languages (e.g. Old Prussian, Ancient Greek), used to express a wish. English has no inflexional optative mood, but it has modal verbs like "might" and "may" that express possibility.
(grammar) a verb or expression in the optative mood.
In grammar terms the difference between hortative and optative
is that hortative is a mood or class of imperative subjunctive moods of a verb for giving strong encouragement while optative is a verb or expression in the optative mood.hortative
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The ministration of these oracles from the pulpit is to be reformed from any of its factitious peculiarities, and made again what it was among the apostles and their immediate successors—earnest, simple, powerful address—hortative talk, if we may so call it.
Synonyms
* (giving strong encouragement) hortatory, supportive * (of a mood of a verb) cohortative, exhortative, hortatoryNoun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (mood of an imperative verb) cohortative, exhortativeSee also
* jussiveoptative
English
Alternative forms
*Adjective
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