December 8. . . . A precatory letter from Gillies. I must do Molière for him, I suppose; but it is wonderful that knowing the situation I am in, the poor fellow presses so hard.
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Precatory
/ˈpɹɛ.kəˌtɔ.ɹi/
Synonyms for "precatory" (19 found)
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Closest matches (4)
Adjective(1 words)
Strong matches (6)
Adjective(3 words)
Related words (9)
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4 entriesgrammatical moodlinguistic moodliturgical languagereligious language
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4 entriesinvocation formulaliturgical prayerprecatory clausesupplicatory form
Collocations
5 entriesdesiderative moodpetitionary requestprecatory clauseprecatory languagesupplicatory language
Inflections
2 entriesmore precatorymost precatory
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2 entriessimilar
3 entriesSample sentences
2 total sentences available.
precatory words in a will
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