Hortatory

Quick meaning: Hortatory is an adjective meaning Giving exhortation or advice; encouraging.

Meaning

Giving exhortation or advice; encouraging.

More Meanings

1. Exhortation or advice; incitement; encouragement.
2. That which exhorts, incites, or encourages.

Example Sentences

Not in a curse but in a hortatory appeal.

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

Inextricably from its analyses and polemic, above all, The Communist Manifesto is hortatory, ‘a call to arms in the service of the revolution’.

Some of these books were, on the face of it, frivolous and facetious; but many, on the other hand, were serious and prophetic, moral and hortatory.

Word Forms

• hortatories

Synonyms for hortatory

Depending on context, synonyms include exhortatory, inciting, protreptic, encouraging, exhortative, hortative.

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