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imprecatives

imprecatives is the plural of imprecative.

Meaning of imprecative

Noun

imprecative (plural imprecatives)

  1. A grammatical mood, found in some languages, used for curses (in the sense of wishing harm) and marked by a different set of affixes than the optative mood, which is used for wishes in general.

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Questions about imprecatives

What is imprecatives the plural of?
Imprecatives is the plural of imprecative.

Words near imprecatives in the dictionary

  1. imprecatingly
  2. imprecation
  3. imprecational
  4. imprecations
  5. imprecative
  6. imprecatives
  7. imprecator
  8. imprecatorily
  9. imprecators
  10. imprecatory
  11. imprecise

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