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