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imperative adjective compulsory, critical, crucial, essential, exigent, impero, indispensable, mandatory, necessary, needful, obligatory, pressing, requiring immediate attention, requisite, urgent Associated concepts: imperative power, imperative statute, imperative trust See also: binding, canon, charge, command, compelling, compulsory, critical, crucial, decisive, decree, dictate, dictatorial, direction, directive, exigent, grave, important, indispensable, inevitable, injunction, insistent, mandate, mandatory, necessary, necessity, obligatory, order, ordinance, positive, pronouncement, requirement, requisite, subpoena, unavoidable, urgent How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| As was the case with vv 1-8, the exhortation in vv 9-17 is argued by (1) imperatival urging: "Love one another I am also not entirely convinced that there are as many imperatival participles in 1 Peter as Professor Elliott finds, and, in a startling about-face, I would see the description of wives in 3:3 as containing references to social and economic reality, whereas Professor Elliott would not (564). |
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