Meanings of hortatory in English

Even in his didactic poems, he is meditative and descriptive rather than hortatory.

The epistles of the apostles are either hortatory or argumentative.

I had made a hortatory hit, and it was encored.

He became didactic, judicial, hortatory; Edith Whyland almost questioned her right to be a mother.

In the speaking pause that followed there was audible an unknown hortatory voice from the smoking-room.

The hortatory section that follows the legislation (xxix., xxx.

They were not illustrative, admonitory, or hortatory.

Honey and Isabel play, and Isabel performs, hard-edged hortatory rock while also delivering political discussions on the air.

This is perhaps some sort of an apology for what may be found hereafter of a hortatory kind.

For hortatory or inspirational purposes we do not need to make this analysis; it has, indeed, its practical dangers.

The shoals of telegrams, reports of proceedings of societies, hortatory letters, crankish proposals, and peace pamphlets from America continue.

They were steeped in such vengeful and hortatory sentiments as passed for elegant piety in the reign of George II.

The words were ordinary enough, and to my mind there was in them something so hortatory that I almost smiled.

Its antiquity and importance are also evidenced by the fact that it has received many later introductory, explanatory, and hortatory notes.

Its wrongheadedness starts with the title, a stupid torturing of Henry Luce's hortatory slogan of 1941, and goes to the bone.

But not even documents, judicious wall texts or hortatory quotations from the artists can quite conjure every intoxicating dream in this show.