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Definition of Hortative
1. Adjective. Giving strong encouragement.
Similar to: Encouraging
Derivative terms: Exhort, Exhort
Definition of Hortative
1. a. Giving exhortation; advisory; exhortative.
2. n. An exhortation.
Definition of Hortative
1. Adjective. (comparable) Urging, exhorting, or encouraging. ¹
2. Adjective. (context: grammar not comparable) Of a mood or class of imperative subjunctive moods of a verb for giving strong encouragement. ¹
3. Noun. (grammar) A mood or class of imperative subjunctive moods of a verb for giving strong encouragement. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hortative
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hortative
Literary usage of Hortative
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Grammar of the Temne Language by Christian Frederick Schlenker (1864)
"hortative. § 417. 1) If the hortative Mood is to be carried on with several verbs,
the second and the following may assume the form of finite verbs, ..."
2. Greek Lessons Prepared to Accompany the Grammar of Hadley and Allen by Robert Porter Keep (1892)
"(hortative Subjunctive.) 128. EULE 3.—The optative is used to express a wish that
something may happen: " may I learn ! " (Optative of Desire.) 129. ..."
3. Hebrew Grammar of Gesenius by Wilhelm Gesenius, Moses Stuart (1846)
"Jussive and hortative in the Imperfect, and Imperative. 1. Some small compensation
for the want, which the He- ..."
4. The Public School Latin Grammar for the Use of Schools, Colleges, and by Benjamin Hall Kennedy (1890)
"Dubitative, Concessive, Optative, hortative uses. 340. Permissive and exhorting
use of 2nd Pers. Conjunctive ; Prohibitive use. 341. v. ..."
5. The Classical Papers of Mortimer Lamson Earle by Mortimer Lamson Earle (1912)
"This usage may be explained as derived from the 'hortative' : but there is ...
In the hortative the subject of the verbal form includes the person or ..."
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