hortatory
[hawr-tuh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee]
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adjective
urging to some course of conduct or action; exhorting; encouraging: a hortatory speech.
Origin of hortatory
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Historical Examples of hortatory
He had assumed a very pompous, hortatory manner, and I could well believe he held a prominent position in Asbury class.
Though, for the sake of brevity, it may at times seem to take a hortatory tone, it is a record and no more.
The Conquest of FearBasil King
Allowing for its standpoint the book is not virulent, and is a respectable piece of hortatory divinity on its own side.
Minor Poets of the Caroline Period, Vol IIIJohn Cleveland
Alienor tells herself, however, that she is fortunate she is not troubled by worse things than hortatory friends.
Life on a Mediaeval BaronyWilliam Stearns Davis
His work has no doubt a hortatory side, as we shall see, but that side is secondary.
hortatory
hortative (ˈhɔːtətɪv)
adjective
Word Origin for hortatory
C16: from Late Latin hortātōrius, from Latin hortārī to exhort
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