hortatory

Speech parts

1. hortatory - Noun

2. hortatory - Adjective

3. hortatory - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Giving exhortation or advise; encouraging; exhortatory; inciting; as, a hortatory speech.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

hortative exhortatory exhortative edifying educational encouraging advisory directive consultative didactic instructive admonitory persuasive subjunctive homiletic

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Antonyms

dark ignorance forbidding mistreatment gloomy depressing

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Phrases with the word

hortatory memorandum hortatory address

Examples

As far as Trump speeches go, it was pretty decent, a short bit of hortatory boilerplate with Trumpian flourishes, like calling the Exodus the story of “an incredible people.” Source: Internet

Uda left behind an hortatory will or testament which offered general admonitions or precepts Compare Precepts of Tokugawa Ieyasu for his son's guidance (see excerpt at right). Source: Internet

This letter consists of two strands: an expositional or doctrinal strand, and a hortatory or strongly urging also translated "exhorting" strand which punctuates the exposition parenthetically at key points as warnings to the readers. Source: Internet

II) two enormous didactic and hortatory ethical letters and a sermon. Source: Internet

Let me first state the central theme of this hortatory essay. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

hortative hortatively hortatorily hortatory address hortatory memorandum Hortense