hortatory

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

adjective

1. urging to some course of conduct or action; exhorting; encouraging:

   a hortatory speech.

hortatory

/ -trɪ; ˈhɔːtətərɪ; ˈhɔːtətɪv /

adjective

1. tending to exhort; encouraging

Derived Forms

• ˈhortatorily, adverb
• horˈtation, noun

Other Words From

• horta·tori·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of hortatory¹

First recorded in 1580–90; from Late Latin hortātōrius “encouraging,” equivalent to hortā(rī) ( hortative ) + -tōrius -tory ¹

Word History and Origins

Origin of hortatory¹

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

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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