hortative

Example Sentences

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He has fourteen moods; his interrogative, optative, hortative, promissive, precautive, requisitive, enunciative, &c.

From English Grammar in Familiar Lectures by Kirkham, Samuel

The Parson, under high excitement, rained his hortative oratory upon me.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 by Various