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Meanings of hortatory in English

Giving strong encouragement.

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Examples for "exhortatory"
Examples for "exhortatory"
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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
3
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...
5
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
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
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.
Vittoria — Volume 5
Usage of hortatory in English
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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...
2
The epistles of the apostles are either hortatory or argumentative.
Evidences of Christianity
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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
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The hortatory section that follows the legislation (xxix., xxx.
Introduction to the Old Testament
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They were not illustrative, admonitory, or hortatory.
In Flanders Fields, and Other Poems
8
Honey and Isabel play, and Isabel performs, hard-edged hortatory rock while also delivering political discussions on the air.
The new yorker
9
This is perhaps some sort of an apology for what may be found hereafter of a hortatory kind.
In a Green Shade / A Country Commentary
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For hortatory or inspirational purposes we do not need to make this analysis; it has, indeed, its practical dangers.
Problems of Conduct: An Introductory Survey of Ethics
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The shoals of telegrams, reports of proceedings of societies, hortatory letters, crankish proposals, and peace pamphlets from America continue.
Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 2
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They were steeped in such vengeful and hortatory sentiments as passed for elegant piety in the reign of George II.
Father and Son: A Study of Two Temperaments
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The words were ordinary enough, and to my mind there was in them something so hortatory that I almost smiled.
The Moon and Sixpence
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Its antiquity and importance are also evidenced by the fact that it has received many later introductory, explanatory, and hortatory notes.
The Origin and Permanent Value of the Old Testament
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Its wrongheadedness starts with the title, a stupid torturing of Henry Luce's hortatory slogan of 1941, and goes to the bone.
The new yorker
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But not even documents, judicious wall texts or hortatory quotations from the artists can quite conjure every intoxicating dream in this show.
The Guardian
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