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(grammar, rare) That is, expressed in, or having the character of the grammatical mood (mode) of rhetorical questioning; percontatorial.

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percontative

Source Word

percontative

Adjective

not-comparable rare

(grammar, rare) That is, expressed in, or having the character of the grammatical mood (mode) of rhetorical questioning; percontatorial.

Japanese Meaning

修辞的な反問（問いかけ）の文法的態様を示す、またはそうした性質を持つ（文法用語として） / 反問い的、すなわち疑問を呈する表現特性を持つ様子

彼女の修辞的に問いかけるような口調は、部屋にいる全員を不安にさせた。まるでどの質問も答えを求めるのではなく告白を求めているかのようだった。

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(grammar, rare) That is, expressed in, or having the character of the grammatical mood (mode) of rhetorical questioning; percontatorial.

Some [grammatical writers] call these affections of the verb moods; others call them divisions, qualities, states, species, &c.; and as to the various appellations of each mood we have the personative and impersonative, the indicative, declarative, definitive, modus finiendi, modus fatendi, the rogative, interrogative, requisitive, percontative, assertive, enunciative, vocative, precative, deprecative, responsive, concessive, permissive, promissive, adhortative, optative, dubitative, imperative, mandative, conjunctive, subjunctive, adjunctive, potential, participial, infinitive, and probably many others.