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Definition of Jussive mood
1. Noun. A mood that expresses an intention to influence the listener's behavior.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jussive Mood
Literary usage of Jussive mood
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Grammar of the Arabic Language by Edward Henry Palmer (1874)
"THE ENERGETIC AND jussive mood. (96). The syllables ^,'and ^' added to the aorist
or imperative give greater force to the expression, and the second is ..."
2. Bibliotheca Sacra and Theological Review (1862)
"If, however, the jussive mood is the oldest form, it cannot have been shortened
from the other forms, as is wrongly supposed by Ewald and Rodiger; ..."
3. A Latin Grammar: On the System of Crude Forms by Thomas Hewitt Key (1846)
"Its suffix is the syllable to or ito : as, scrib-Ito, thou shall write. 425.
The jussive mood directs. It has no special suffix. 426. ..."
4. An Arabic Manual by John Gulian Lansing (1886)
"The jussive mood is connected with the Imperative both in form and signification,
and implies a command or order. The particle *J is generally prefixed, ..."
5. General Principles of the Structure of Language by James Byrne (1892)
"... by time subjunctive after,the negative.2 There is also a jussive mood, used
also for what is a supposition or what depends on a supposition (74, ..."
6. A Treatise on the Use of the Tenses in Hebrew and Some Other Syntactical by Samuel Rolles Driver (1892)
"... that the identity of form in the two an impf. after it, just as DITD generally
does in Hebrew: but the imp£ is universally in the jussive mood. ..."
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