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Meanings of exhortatory in English

Giving strong encouragement.

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Examples for "hortatory"
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Even in his didactic poems, he is meditative and descriptive rather than hortatory.
Poets of the South / A Series of Biographical and Critical Studi...
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The epistles of the apostles are either hortatory or argumentative.
Evidences of Christianity
3
I had made a hortatory hit, and it was encored.
When Grandmamma Was New: The Story of a Virginia Childhood
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He became didactic, judicial, hortatory; Edith Whyland almost questioned her right to be a mother.
Under the Skylights
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In the speaking pause that followed there was audible an unknown hortatory voice from the smoking-room.
The Coast of Chance
1
Stephen Masterton felt his throat swell with his old exhortative indignation.
Selected Stories of Bret Harte
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Reb Sender pursued his "exhortative talk."
The Rise of David Levinsky
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Ta-Nehisi said he thought ­Morrison's praise was essentially literary, about the echo of Baldwin's direct and exhortative prose in his own.
NY Magazine
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Father Bernardus was too continually exhortative, and fenced too much to "hit the eyeball of her conscience," as he phrased it, to afford her repose.
Vittoria — Volume 5
Usage of exhortatory in English
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The pain made him more tedious, long-winded and exhortatory than usual.
South Wind
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His voice had an exhortatory but tender tone in it.
The Goose Man
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The Obama administration has adopted a similar exhortatory stance.
The Guardian
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The duty in our text, with the duty in our hands, pressing them on still in an exhortatory way.
The Covenants And The Covenanters / Covenants, Sermons, and Docu...
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I could take no part in it but an exhortatory one, because I was a stranger to the circumstances which should govern it.
George Washington
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The heresy of Nestorius he had clearly condemned from the beginning, with John of Antioch, in their exhortatory letter to Nestorius, (Conc.
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints. J...
Exhortatory through the time