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Definition of Imperatives
1. imperative [n] - See also: imperative
Lexicographical Neighbors of Imperatives
Literary usage of Imperatives
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ethics: An Investigation of the Facts and Laws of the Moral Life by Wilhelm Max Wundt, Edward Bradford Titchener, Margaret Floy Washburn, Julia Henrietta Gulliver (1901)
"(d) The imperatives of Freedom. Constraint in its two forms can do no more than
produce the outward symptoms of morality; or at best a feeling of repugnance ..."
2. Introduction to Ethics by Frank Thilly (1900)
"Categorical and Hypothetical imperatives. — Closely connected with this objection
is the one that the teleological theory cannot explain the absoluteness of ..."
3. The Sunday-night Evangel: A Series of Sunday Evening Discourses Delivered in by Louis Albert Banks (1911)
"ALL great character and achievement depend upon the imperatives which master ...
A soul without imperatives which control it, dominate it, and dictate to it ..."
4. Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 93 by Harvard University (1896)
"FIVE INTERESTING GREEK imperatives. BY JOHN HENRY WRIGHT.! 1. PIE I. — On many
earlier examples of the Attic drinking-vase known as the cylix — datable' ..."
5. In Search of a Post-Cold War Security Structure by Gregory D. Foster (1996)
"Seven imperatives must guide any such reform effort. IMPERATIVE NO. 1: RECONCEPTUALIZE
SECURITY. It is inconceivable that we could establish a security ..."
6. A Progressive Series of Inductive Lessons in Latin: Based on Material Drawn by John Tetlow (1889)
"Learn the inflection, with meanings, of the imperatives, Present and Future, of
sum : A. & G. p. 83 ; H. p. 85; G. p. 51. 168. Learn, as in 167, ..."
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