How To Use precative In A Sentence
- 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
- 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
- How did the mere hortative manage to exist alongside the deprecative? Languagehat.com: GO TO, THOU ART A FOOLISH FELLOW.
- The common academic view of popular music is at best deprecative.
- 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
- It has as its mortal enemies the deprecative and the depressing.
- How did the mere hortative manage to exist alongside the deprecative? Languagehat.com: GO TO, THOU ART A FOOLISH FELLOW.
- 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
- Her remarks were merely deprecative and full of pity. Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa
- 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.
