hortative
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Is hortative a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (comparable) Urging, exhorting, or encouraging.Examples: "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."comparable
2. (grammar, not comparable) Of a mood or class of imperative subjunctive moods of a verb for giving strong encouragement.Synonyms: hortatory, supportive, cohortative, exhortative, hortatorynot-comparable
noun (English)
1. (grammar) A mood or class of imperative subjunctive moods of a verb for giving strong encouragement.Synonyms: cohortative, exhortative
Definition source: Wiktionary