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Hortative

//ˈhɔːtətɪv// adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Urging, exhorting, or encouraging. comparable

    "The ministration of these oracles from the pulpit is to be reformed from any of its factitious peculiarities, and made again what it was among the apostles and their immediate successors—earnest, simple, powerful address—hortative talk, if we may so call it."

  2. 2
    Of a mood or class of imperative subjunctive moods of a verb for giving strong encouragement. not-comparable
Adjective
  1. 1
    giving strong encouragement wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    A mood or class of imperative subjunctive moods of a verb for giving strong encouragement.

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Latin hortātīvus, from hortor (“I exhort”).

Etymology 2

From Latin hortātīvus, from hortor (“I exhort”).

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