What's the difference between optative and optatively?

Optative


Definition:

  • (a.) Expressing desire or wish.
  • (n.) Something to be desired.
  • (n.) The optative mood; also, a verb in the optative mood.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In nursing, a feminist perspective requires an uncompromising questioning of the forces that divide us from one another, the ethics of our actions, and our co-optation into the unhealthy environment of the current health care system.
  • (2) Thirty-eight ICUs were chosen by co-optation rather than by randomization.
  • (3) All three possibilities: co-optation, subordination and nationalization are problematic as far as chiropractic is concerned.
  • (4) Beijing cannot assume it can adopt its old strategies like co-optation to deal with this new generation of democrat inside the legislature and also outside.” Jason Ng, the author of Umbrellas in Bloom, a book about Hong Kong’s protest generation, predicted political fireworks as highly politicised youngsters picked up the mantle from traditional mainstream democracy figures, known as the pan-democrats.
  • (5) The very high hepatic stricture may present an almost insoluble problem and the "mucosal graft" of Rodney Smith is the optative operation.

Optatively


Definition:

  • (adv.) In an optative manner; with the expression of desire.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In nursing, a feminist perspective requires an uncompromising questioning of the forces that divide us from one another, the ethics of our actions, and our co-optation into the unhealthy environment of the current health care system.
  • (2) Thirty-eight ICUs were chosen by co-optation rather than by randomization.
  • (3) All three possibilities: co-optation, subordination and nationalization are problematic as far as chiropractic is concerned.
  • (4) Beijing cannot assume it can adopt its old strategies like co-optation to deal with this new generation of democrat inside the legislature and also outside.” Jason Ng, the author of Umbrellas in Bloom, a book about Hong Kong’s protest generation, predicted political fireworks as highly politicised youngsters picked up the mantle from traditional mainstream democracy figures, known as the pan-democrats.
  • (5) The very high hepatic stricture may present an almost insoluble problem and the "mucosal graft" of Rodney Smith is the optative operation.

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