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What is "hortative" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does hortative mean in English? Meaning of hortative definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "hortative" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "hortative": giving strong encouragement

Adjective

  • Meaning: giving strong encouragement
  • Synonyms: exhortative exhortatory hortative hortatory
  • Similar: encouraging

    • Pronunciation in US: /ˈhɔːɹtətɪv/ Sorry, your browser either has JavaScript disabled or does not have any supported player. You can download the clip or download a player to play the clip in your browser. help

  • Adjective: (comparable) Urging, exhorting, or encouraging. 1854, "The Preaching Required by the Times" (Editorial), The National Magazine, New York, vol. 4, no. 1 (Jan.), pp. 79-80. The ministration of these oracles from the pulpit is to be reformed from any of its factitious peculiarities, and made again what it was among the apostles and their immediate successors—earnest, simple, powerful address—hortative talk, if we may so call it.1854, "The Preaching Required by the Times" (Editorial), The National Magazine, New York, vol. 4, no. 1 (Jan.), pp. 79-80. The ministration of these oracles from the pulpit is to be reformed from any of its factitious peculiarities, and made again what it was among the apostles and their immediate successors—earnest, simple, powerful address—hortative talk, if we may so call it.(grammar, not comparable) Of a mood or class of imperative subjunctive moods of a verb for giving strong encouragement.

    • Synonyms:

    academic, advisory, expository, homiletic, instructive, moral, moralizing, pedagogic, pedantic, preachy, edifying, enlightening, donnish, exhortative, preceptive, schoolmasterist, sermonic, sermonizing, teacherish, teacherly, teachy,

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    hortative in English: hortative
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