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English
Etymology
From Latin hortātīvus, from hortor (“I exhort”).
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Adjective
hortative (comparative more hortative, superlative most hortative)
- (comparable) Urging, exhorting, or encouraging.
January 1854, “The Preaching Required by the Times”, in The National Magazine, volume 4, number 1, New York, Editorial, pages 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.
- (grammar, not comparable) Of a mood or class of imperative subjunctive moods of a verb for giving strong encouragement.
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Translations
urging, exhorting, or encouraging
of a mood or class of imperative subjunctive moods of a verb for giving strong encouragement
Noun
hortative (plural hortatives)
- (grammar) A mood or class of imperative subjunctive moods of a verb for giving strong encouragement.
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