hortation
- a word derived from hortatory.
Example Sentences
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Some such hortation is easily imaginable by any one who saw the two old friends together.
From And Even Now by Beerbohm, Max, Sir
It is an hortation which, by whomsoever delivered, would tend to dispirit the bravest and most honest of witnesses.
From Yet Again by Beerbohm, Max, Sir
I caught myself nodding to it—a nod of sympathy, of hortation to endurance.
From Yet Again by Beerbohm, Max, Sir
Now and again, it seemed to be thought that the lovers were insufficiently fervid—were but dallying with passion; and then there were stentorian grunts of disapproval and hortation.
From Yet Again by Beerbohm, Max, Sir
Here surely is "the atmosphere of praise" of Mr. Pinero's hortation.
From Without Prejudice by Zangwill, Israel
