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词汇 hortatory
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Definition of hortatory in English:

hortatory

adjective 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

Derivatives

  • hortation

  • noun hɔːˈteɪʃ(ə)n
    • And your basis for such a hortation would be what exactly?
      Example sentencesExamples
      • An eighth-grade English textbook published in Bucharest in 1978 begins with an inspiring hortation from President Nicolae Ceausescu.
      • But, despite Edward Steichen's hortation that the goal of photography is to explain man to his fellow man, the fact is that photographs suggest much but explain very little.
      • And in any event, whether he is successful strategically, is wholly irrelevant and has nothing to do with your hortation to avoid ‘blanket judgments.’
      • One promising aspect of international law, by contrast, is that it is much more normative than conventional municipal legal systems, and more subject to hortations of commentators, who are more free to insert common sense moral intuitions.
  • hortative

  • adjective ˈhɔːtətɪvˈhɔrdədɪv
    • Its hortative function barely survives outside of a few locutions, but ‘God bless… ‘is one of those.’
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The simplified illustrations of the corpses in the Dainenbutsuji version even seem to laugh rather than howl in death, perhaps out of an intention to deliver the subject of the decaying corpse in a less hortative manner.
      • The anonymous yet commanding voice of the David-like poet then reappears and neatly concludes the poem with its final hortative: ‘With Circes let them dwell that thinke not so.’
      • The scriptures of Semitic inspiration are hortative, admonitory; they urge, they reprove, they enjoin, they warn.
      • Given the hortative intent of this paper, there is not the opportunity to provide a detailed rendition of accountings during the Irish famine.

Origin

Late 16th century: from Latin hortatorius, from hortari 'exhort'.

Rhymes

exhortatory

Definition of hortatory in US English:

hortatory

adjectiveˈhɔrdəˌtɔriˈhôrdəˌtôrē
  • 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

Origin

Late 16th century: from Latin hortatorius, from hortari ‘exhort’.

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