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Definition
essential and urgent
or more rarely: (in grammar) a sentence that expresses a command or request
or more rarely: (in grammar) a sentence that expresses a command or request
- Before I could reply that he was my neighbor dinner was announced; wedging his tense arm imperatively under mine, Tom Buchanan compelled me from the room as though he were moving a checker to another square.p. 11.4
There are no more uses of "imperative" in The Great Gatsby.
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