Hortatory

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Marked by exhortation or strong urging: a hortatory speech.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Giving exhortation or advice; encouraging; exhortatory; inciting.
  • n. Exhortation or advice; incitement; encouragement.
  • n. That which exhorts, incites, or encourages.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Giving exhortation or advise; encouraging; exhortatory; inciting.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Encouraging; inciting; urging to some course of conduct or action: as, a hortatory address; a hortatory style.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. giving strong encouragement
    • Equivalent
    encouraging   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    encouraging    exhortatory    inciting    protreptic   
    Same Context
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