Optatively

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  • ad. In an optative way.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • ad. In an optative manner; with the expression of desire.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • In an optative manner; by desire; by the expression of a wish.
  • By means of the optative mode; in the optative mode.
    • Word Usage
    "From Rosenstock-Huessy's perspective, Heidegger's deployment of Being, as a gesture of defiance against the technicity into which the world has fallen, is precisely the same kind of optatively-governed gesture which characterizes the philosopher's freedom (an aesthetic/moral one)."
     
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