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Definition of hortatory in English: hortatoryadjective ˈhɔːtət(ə)riˈhɔrdəˌtɔri Tending or aiming to exhort. 劝勉的;告诫的;激励的 a series of hortatory epistles Example sentencesExamples - I submit the following translation of Tocqueville's final hortatory sentence/paragraph of his masterpiece not as an invidious comparison but as an illustration of differing approaches to the difficult task of translation.
- Girlfight surrounds her with familiar fight-movie elements: the decrepit gym, decorated with hortatory slogans; the wizened coach with his own agenda of disappointments.
- Anabaptists encouraged themselves mainly with hortatory texts and liturgical hymns extolling martyrs and martyrdom.
- Constitutionalism implies that the constitution is a real rather than merely hortatory instrument.
- Platitudes, hortatory admonitions, and boilerplate solutions proffered by such international agencies as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund won't take Africans very far.
- Put into rhyme, it would fit into many of the rueful, hortatory songs of the '60s, when truthtelling was praised both as a moral medicine and for its beauty.
- Her hortatory editorials argued for the observance of a national Thanksgiving holiday, and she encouraged the public to write to their local politicians.
- If Washington means ‘war’ metaphorically, as when it speaks about a ‘war’ on drugs, the rhetoric would be uncontroversial, a mere hortatory device intended to rally support for an important cause.
- Karris acknowledges the author's hortatory use of ‘good deeds’ and the catchword ‘sound’ to shame the opposition and to encourage believers.
- But this argument is irrelevant, because these hortatory declarations are not legally binding treaties of the sort that could grant such powers.
- For all their efforts, however, the Summit produced few tangible results - it was big on hortatory promises and small on actual commitments.
- Inspector Roberts' document was a Branch Note, a Briefing Note, aspirational, hortatory in character, and entirely lacking in the authoritative provenance that would justify its description as a Policy Document.
- Political commentators, by contrast, are hortatory and didactic - and angry.
- The poems, plays, and essays of the committed cultural nationalist are characterized by a markedly hortatory or didactic manner.
- The show's catalog contains no fewer than 20 essays explaining the therapeutic and hortatory intentions of this work.
- Thus there are really two kinds of story: that which shapes the Jesus narrative in each Gospel, and that which influences the didactic and hortatory arguments in the Epistles.
- In mid-November, the effort came to an unsuccessful end, as the committee opted to draft a hortatory declaration opposing human cloning rather than a binding treaty prohibiting it.
- It always seems a little odd to be sitting at the computer composing a column containing hortatory thoughts for the January / February issue to launch us into a bright new year while there is so much going on before we get to that.
- As is often the case with activist art, the Latin American selection, while rife with political and moral earnestness, is crudely hortatory and almost totally devoid of formal interest.
- Film acting schooled Reagan in the hortatory oratory of movie dialogue - speeches crafted to sell an ideal or an emotion, and still sound like plain-spoken common sense - techniques he used so dynamically in politics.
Synonyms exhortatory, exhortative, exhorting, moralistic, homiletic, didactic, pedagogic informal preachy
OriginLate 16th century: from Latin hortatorius, from hortari 'exhort'. Definition of hortatory in US English: hortatoryadjectiveˈhɔrdəˌtɔriˈhôrdəˌtôrē Tending or aiming to exhort. 劝勉的;告诫的;激励的 the central bank relied on hortatory messages and voluntary compliance Example sentencesExamples - Girlfight surrounds her with familiar fight-movie elements: the decrepit gym, decorated with hortatory slogans; the wizened coach with his own agenda of disappointments.
- Inspector Roberts' document was a Branch Note, a Briefing Note, aspirational, hortatory in character, and entirely lacking in the authoritative provenance that would justify its description as a Policy Document.
- But this argument is irrelevant, because these hortatory declarations are not legally binding treaties of the sort that could grant such powers.
- It always seems a little odd to be sitting at the computer composing a column containing hortatory thoughts for the January / February issue to launch us into a bright new year while there is so much going on before we get to that.
- Constitutionalism implies that the constitution is a real rather than merely hortatory instrument.
- Karris acknowledges the author's hortatory use of ‘good deeds’ and the catchword ‘sound’ to shame the opposition and to encourage believers.
- If Washington means ‘war’ metaphorically, as when it speaks about a ‘war’ on drugs, the rhetoric would be uncontroversial, a mere hortatory device intended to rally support for an important cause.
- In mid-November, the effort came to an unsuccessful end, as the committee opted to draft a hortatory declaration opposing human cloning rather than a binding treaty prohibiting it.
- Anabaptists encouraged themselves mainly with hortatory texts and liturgical hymns extolling martyrs and martyrdom.
- The poems, plays, and essays of the committed cultural nationalist are characterized by a markedly hortatory or didactic manner.
- The show's catalog contains no fewer than 20 essays explaining the therapeutic and hortatory intentions of this work.
- Film acting schooled Reagan in the hortatory oratory of movie dialogue - speeches crafted to sell an ideal or an emotion, and still sound like plain-spoken common sense - techniques he used so dynamically in politics.
- For all their efforts, however, the Summit produced few tangible results - it was big on hortatory promises and small on actual commitments.
- Thus there are really two kinds of story: that which shapes the Jesus narrative in each Gospel, and that which influences the didactic and hortatory arguments in the Epistles.
- Her hortatory editorials argued for the observance of a national Thanksgiving holiday, and she encouraged the public to write to their local politicians.
- I submit the following translation of Tocqueville's final hortatory sentence/paragraph of his masterpiece not as an invidious comparison but as an illustration of differing approaches to the difficult task of translation.
- Put into rhyme, it would fit into many of the rueful, hortatory songs of the '60s, when truthtelling was praised both as a moral medicine and for its beauty.
- As is often the case with activist art, the Latin American selection, while rife with political and moral earnestness, is crudely hortatory and almost totally devoid of formal interest.
- Political commentators, by contrast, are hortatory and didactic - and angry.
- Platitudes, hortatory admonitions, and boilerplate solutions proffered by such international agencies as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund won't take Africans very far.
Synonyms exhortatory, exhortative, exhorting, moralistic, homiletic, didactic, pedagogic
OriginLate 16th century: from Latin hortatorius, from hortari ‘exhort’. |