hortatory

[ hawr-tuh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee ]

/ ˈhɔr təˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i /

adjective

urging to some course of conduct or action; exhorting; encouraging: a hortatory speech.

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Origin of hortatory

1580–90; < Late Latin hortātōrius encouraging, equivalent to hortā(rī) (see hortative) + -tōrius -tory¹

Related formshor·ta·to·ri·ly, adverb

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Examples from the Web for hortatory

The latter then loses its peculiar flavor of the didactic and pedantic; its ultra-moralistic and hortatory tone.
Reconstruction in Philosophy|John Dewey
I believe, sir, that in the hortatory scene Lady Macbeth really vanquishes—as the scene ostensibly shows—his irresolution.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 66, No 409, November 1849|Various
Extracts from his hortatory letters which he published proved to Russians that his day was over.
A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections|Isabel Florence Hapgood
Akin to these hortatory epigrams, in their tone of settled melancholy, are some of the satiric and convivial.
Studies of the Greek Poets (Vol II of 2)|John Addington Symonds

Love Cheats is the hortatory title of a play to be produced by Miss Horniman's company next month.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, May 20, 1914|Various

British Dictionary definitions for hortatory

hortatory

hortative (ˈhɔːtətɪv)

/ (ˈhɔːtətərɪ, -trɪ) /

adjective

tending to exhort; encouraging

Derived Formshortation, nounhortatorily or hortatively, adverb

Word Origin for hortatory

C16: from Late Latin hortātōrius, from Latin hortārī to exhort

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