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Definition of Jussive
1. Adjective. (grammar of a verb) Inflected to indicate commands, permission or agreement with a request. ¹
2. Noun. (grammar): The jussive mood. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Jussive
1. a word used to express command [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jussive
Literary usage of Jussive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Primer of Hebrew by Charles Prospero Fagnani (1903)
"LESSON XVII THE jussive, WAW CONSECUTIVE, ETC. a. The 3d and 2d persons of the
Imperfect may express not only incomplete action historically ..."
2. The Foundations of Latin: Book for Beginners by Charles Edwin Bennett (1898)
"Substantive Clauses developed from the jussive. 336. These are generally used as
object-clauses, and occur especially with the following classes of verbs ..."
3. A Grammar of the Arabic Language by Carl Paul Caspari, William Wright, William Robertson Smith, Michael Jan de Goeje (1896)
"The jussive is denoted by the absence of any * j *•* vowel with the third radical,
... The peculiar meaning of the jussive has brought along with it the ..."
4. Gesenius' Hebrew Grammar by Wilhelm Gesenius (1859)
"LENGTHENING AND SHORTENING OF THE IMPERFECT AND IMPERATIVE. (jussive and ...
force) and a shortened form (with a jussive force). The lengthened Imperfect ..."
5. On the Use of the Subjunctive Mood in Anglo-Saxon: And Its Further History by Gerold Hotz (1882)
"All, Optative, Hortative, and jussive are in ... it is often not easy to distinguish
whether a subjunctive he Optative, Hortative or jussive. ..."
6. A Treatise on the Use of the Tenses in Hebrew and Some Other Syntactical by Samuel Rolles Driver (1892)
"In many of these passages the un- shortened form occurs in close proximity to an
actual jussive. 2 Not so often, however, as with the second or third ..."
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