hortative
English
Etymology
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From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin hortātīvus, from hortor (“I exhort”).
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)tətɪv
Adjective
hortative (comparative more hortative, superlative most hortative)
- (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.
- (grammar, not comparable) Of a mood or class of imperative subjunctive moods of a verb for giving strong encouragement.
Synonyms
- (giving strong encouragement): hortatory, supportive
- (of a mood of a verb): cohortative, exhortative, hortatory
Translations
urging, exhorting, or encouraging
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of a mood or class of imperative subjunctive moods of a verb for giving strong encouragement
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Noun
hortative (plural hortatives)
- (grammar) A mood or class of imperative subjunctive moods of a verb for giving strong encouragement.
Synonyms
- (mood of an imperative verb): cohortative, exhortative