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hortatory
[ hawr-tuh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee ]
adjective
- urging to some course of conduct or action; exhorting; encouraging:
a hortatory speech.
hortatory
/ ˈhɔːtətɪv; ˈhɔːtətərɪ; -trɪ /
adjective
- tending to exhort; encouraging
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Derived Forms
- horˈtation, noun
- ˈhortatorily, adverb
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Other Words From
- horta·tori·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins
Origin of hortatory1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of hortatory1
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Example Sentences
His work has no doubt a hortatory side, as we shall see, but that side is secondary.
This gave De Gollyer a certain hortatory moment of which he availed himself, seeking to reduce further the dramatic tension.
Is there some fatality which makes the pen that treats of Commencement hortatory and didactic?
The book is thus almost wholly in the form of address, and the hortatory note is insistent.
The latter then loses its peculiar flavor of the didactic and pedantic; its ultra-moralistic and hortatory tone.
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