hortatory
urging to some course of conduct or action; exhorting; encouraging: a hortatory speech.
Origin of hortatory
1Other words from hortatory
- hor·ta·to·ri·ly, adverb
Words Nearby hortatory
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How to use hortatory in a sentence
His work has no doubt a hortatory side, as we shall see, but that side is secondary.
Expositor's Bible: The Second Epistle to the Corinthians | James DenneyThis gave De Gollyer a certain hortatory moment of which he availed himself, seeking to reduce further the dramatic tension.
Murder in Any Degree | Owen JohnsonIs there some fatality which makes the pen that treats of Commencement hortatory and didactic?
From the Easy Chair, series 2 | George William CurtisThe book is thus almost wholly in the form of address, and the hortatory note is insistent.
The Literature of the Old Testament | George Foot MooreThe latter then loses its peculiar flavor of the didactic and pedantic; its ultra-moralistic and hortatory tone.
Reconstruction in Philosophy | John Dewey
British Dictionary definitions for hortatory
hortative (ˈhɔːtətɪv)
/ (ˈhɔːtətərɪ, -trɪ) /
tending to exhort; encouraging
Origin of hortatory
1Derived forms of hortatory
- hortation, noun
- hortatorily or hortatively, adverb
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