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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
/ -trɪ; ˈhɔːtətərɪ; ˈhɔːtətɪv /
adjective
- tending to exhort; encouraging
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Derived Forms
- ˈhortatorily, adverb
- horˈtation, noun
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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
C16: from Late Latin hortātōrius, from Latin hortārī to exhort
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Example Sentences
His work has no doubt a hortatory side, as we shall see, but that side is secondary.
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This gave De Gollyer a certain hortatory moment of which he availed himself, seeking to reduce further the dramatic tension.
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Is there some fatality which makes the pen that treats of Commencement hortatory and didactic?
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The book is thus almost wholly in the form of address, and the hortatory note is insistent.
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The latter then loses its peculiar flavor of the didactic and pedantic; its ultra-moralistic and hortatory tone.
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