Grammatical mood expressing exhortation, insistence, or encouragement.
Giving strong encouragement.
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Examples for "hortatory"
Examples for "hortatory"
1Even in his didactic poems, he is meditative and descriptive rather than hortatory.
2The epistles of the apostles are either hortatory or argumentative.
3I had made a hortatory hit, and it was encored.
4He became didactic, judicial, hortatory; Edith Whyland almost questioned her right to be a mother.
5In the speaking pause that followed there was audible an unknown hortatory voice from the smoking-room.
1The pain made him more tedious, long-winded and exhortatory than usual.
2His voice had an exhortatory but tender tone in it.
3The Obama administration has adopted a similar exhortatory stance.
4The duty in our text, with the duty in our hands, pressing them on still in an exhortatory way.
5I could take no part in it but an exhortatory one, because I was a stranger to the circumstances which should govern it.
1Stephen Masterton felt his throat swell with his old exhortative indignation.
2Reb Sender pursued his "exhortative talk."
3Ta-Nehisi said he thought Morrison's praise was essentially literary, about the echo of Baldwin's direct and exhortative prose in his own.
4Father Bernardus was too continually exhortative, and fenced too much to "hit the eyeball of her conscience," as he phrased it, to afford her repose.
Translations for hortative