hortatory
adjective
urging to some course of conduct or action; exhorting; encouraging.
hortation
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a word derived from
hortatory.
Example Sentences
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I caught myself nodding to it—a nod of sympathy, of hortation to endurance.
From Yet Again by Sir Max Beerbohm
It is an hortation which, by whomsoever delivered, would tend to dispirit the bravest and most honest of witnesses.
From Yet Again by Sir Max Beerbohm
If you would whirl in regular gyration As he does in his dull old mill, He'd show, at any rate, good-will,— Especially if you heard and heeded his hortation.
From Faust by Bayard Taylor
Here surely is "the atmosphere of praise" of Mr. Pinero's hortation.
From Without Prejudice by Israel Zangwill
Volumes that are exclusively devoted to what I might call horticultural hortation are apt to become oppressive.
From Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, November 25, 1914 by Sir Owen Seaman
