hortatory
- adjective
- /ˈhɔːrtəˌtɔri/
- Formal
:
exhortativo
- The campaign included hortatory messages encouraging everyone to vote in the upcoming election.
Examples
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Generally speaking, international agreements on these issues have become largely political and hortatory without the enforcement mechanisms that are central to much more contractual trade agreements.
Academic text (1992) -
Amidst the storytelling, "Timothy" inserts a few hortatory remarks entreating his audience to the "pure" ascetic life.
Academic text (2004) -
Is, however, the precautionary principle merely "hortatory rhetoric"?
Academic text (2013) -
My goals are pedagogical, historiographical, and hortatory.
Academic text (1997) -
The Charter itself was hortatory and left member states to act as implementers, except for areas where EC-wide rules were deemed necessary.
Academic text (1990) -
Therefore, 10 years after leaving graduate school, I was off and running some of the time in the gifted-child field, but mainly with speculative, hortatory pieces rather than analyses of data.
Academic text (1990) -
Such an expansion of the enforcement moratorium would remove all teeth from the CAA and render it purely hortatory for years at a time when stronger action is essential.
Academic text (1996) -
Despite being criticized as largely symbolic and hortatory, the presidential summit meeting could usher in a new regional relationship in which the United States would (1) be willing to recognize other perspectives and priorities, (2) acknowledge its responsibility to reduce demand, and (3) tailor cooperative programs and policies to regional realities.
Academic text (1990) -
Insisting that conscience, as Freud taught us, is a product of no more than the accidents of upbringing, he yet writes prose that is recurrently hortatory and determinedly edifying.
Academic text (1990) -
The speaker's hortatory remarks inspired the audience to take action for climate change.
Synonyms
Strongly encouraging someone to take action
To encourage someone strongly to do something
To urge people strongly to do something
That makes someone want to take action
Antonyms
How Encouraging
Surface Forms
Morphology
hortatory = hortation (semi-transparent) = hortat + ory
The adjective is a regular derivation from the noun 'hortation', but that noun and the Latin-derived stem are low-frequency and unfamiliar to many learners.
Etymology
Hortatory comes from the Latin verb hortari, which means 'to urge' or 'encourage'. It shares the same root as English exhort, so a hortatory remark is one that strongly 'urges' people to act.