Meaning of HORTATORY
| Pronunciation: | | 'hortu`towree
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[adj] giving strong encouragement |
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HORTATORY is a 9 letter word that starts with H. |
| | Synonyms: | | encouraging, exhortative, exhortatory, hortative |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Hor"ta*to*ry\, a. [L. hortatorius.]
Giving exhortation or advise; encouraging; exhortatory;
inciting; as, a hortatory speech. --Holland.
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| | Related Terms: | | admonitory, advisory, autodidactic, cajoling, cautionary, coeducational, consultative, consultatory, cultural, didactic, directive, disciplinary, edifying, educating, educational, educative, enlightening, exhortative, exhortatory, expostulative, expostulatory, homiletic, hortative, illuminating, informative, initiatory, instructive, introductory, lecturing, monitorial, monitory, moralistic, persuading, persuasive, preaching, preachy, preceptive, propaedeutic, recommendatory, remonstrant, remonstrative, remonstratory, self-teaching, sententious, suasive, teaching, tuitionary, warning, wheedling |
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