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hortative

[hawr-tuh-tiv] / ˈhɔr tə tɪv /

ADJECTIVE

didactic

Synonyms

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academic advisory donnish edifying enlightening exhortative expository homiletic instructive moral moralizing pedagogic pedantic preachy preceptive schoolmasterist sermonic sermonizing teacherish teacherly teachy

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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

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