hortatory
/ˈhɔɹtətɔɹi/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.35 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
noun
noun
That which exhorts, incites, or encourages.
Example Sentences
- "The words were ordinary enough, and to my mind there was in them something so hortatory that I almost smiled."
- "Some of these books were, on the face of it, frivolous and facetious; but many, on the other hand, were serious and prophetic, moral and hortatory."
- "Not in a curse but in a hortatory appeal."
- "Inextricably from its analyses and polemic, above all, The Communist Manifesto is hortatory, ‘a call to arms in the service of the revolution’."
- "I did not know enough of the Book to understand his hortatory but it seemed to please Miz Ann, who thanked him for his blessings, said she did not require his other services, and that he had paid for his meal with his message."
- "For here as in other points the development of the theory of Ethics would seem to be somewhat impeded by the preponderance of practical considerations; and perhaps a more complete detachment of the theoretical study of right conduct from its practical application is to be desired for the sake even of the latter itself: since a treatment which is a compound between the scientific and the hortatory is apt to miss both the results that it would combine; the mixture is bewildering to the brain and not stimulating to the heart."
Etymology
From Middle French hortatoire, from Latin hortor (“encourage”).
Word Breakdown
- Root: *gʰer-
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈhɔɹtətɔɹi/
- British English: /ˈhɔːtətəɹi/