Grammatical mood expressing exhortation, insistence, or encouragement.
Giving strong 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.
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