Associations to the word «Hortative»
Wiktionary
HORTATIVE, adjective. (comparable) Urging, exhorting, or encouraging.
HORTATIVE, adjective. (grammar) (not comparable) Of a mood or class of imperative subjunctive moods of a verb for giving strong encouragement.
HORTATIVE, noun. (grammar) A mood or class of imperative subjunctive moods of a verb for giving strong encouragement.
Dictionary definition
HORTATIVE, adjective. Giving strong encouragement.
Wise words
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry
and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.