Hortatory

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  • adjective. Marked by exhortation or strong urging.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Encouraging; inciting; urging to some course of conduct or action: as, a hortatory address; a hortatory style.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Giving exhortation or advise; encouraging; exhortatory; inciting.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Giving exhortation or advice; encouraging; exhortatory; inciting.
  • noun. Exhortation or advice; incitement; encouragement.
  • noun. That which exhorts, incites, or encourages.
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  • adjective. giving strong encouragement
  • Word Usage
    "In pieces which may be called hortatory, the pulpit eloquence, as it were, of a poet addressing his contemporaries on public matters, the utterances of a patriot and a citizen moved by pity for his fellows, such poetry as the _Discours des Misères de ce Temps_ and the"
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