Percontative
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Percontative is an adjective meaning (grammar, rare) That is, expressed in, or having the character of the grammatical mood (mode) of rhetorical questioning; percontatorial.
Meaning
(grammar, rare) That is, expressed in, or having the character of the grammatical mood (mode) of rhetorical questioning; percontatorial.
Example Sentences
Destined for internal consumption, these three words nevertheless provoked the reply which you see here: who doesn’t? With an interrogation point, for the reply was percontative.
‘Perfect Dicibles are of various sorts: Interrogative; Percontative; Adjurative; Optative; Imprecative; Execrative; Substitutive; Compellative; Hypothetical; and, lastly, Dubious.’
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include percontatorial, perlocutionary, imperatival, perorative, injunctive, optative.
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