hortative
English
WOTD – 30 June 2007
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈhɔːtətɪv/
- (US) IPA: /ˈhɔːɹtətɪv/
- 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
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
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See also
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