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hortatory

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9 lettersPronunciation /ˈhɔːtətəɹi/Part of speech adjectiveSorted ahoorrttyStarts with HEnds with Y0 clues
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Definitions

  1. giving strong encouragement

Word origin

From Middle French hortatoire, from Latin hortor (“encourage”).

Used in a sentence

  • 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.

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