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hortative

[hawr-tuh-tiv] / ˈhɔr tə tɪv /
ADJECTIVE
didactic
Synonyms
WEAK
academic advisory donnish edifying enlightening exhortative expository homiletic instructive moral moralizing pedagogic pedantic preachy preceptive schoolmasterist sermonic sermonizing teacherish teacherly teachy

Example Sentences

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

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

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

From English Grammar in Familiar Lectures by Kirkham, Samuel

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