Definitions for hortatory

hortatory hor·ta·to·ry

Spelling: [hawr-tuh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee]
IPA: /ˈhɔr təˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i/

Hortatory is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 171 anagrams from letters in hortatory (ahoorrtty).

Definitions for hortatory

adjective

  1. urging to some course of conduct or action; exhorting; encouraging:

Origin of hortatory

1580-90; Late Latin hortātōrius encouraging, equivalent to hortā(rī) (see hortative) + -tōrius -tory1

Examples for hortatory

Allowing for its standpoint the book is not virulent, and is a respectable piece of hortatory divinity on its own side.

Akin to these hortatory epigrams, in their tone of settled melancholy, are some of the satiric and convivial.

Though, for the sake of brevity, it may at times seem to take a hortatory tone, it is a record and no more.

This discourse, again, is hortatory, and its exhortations contain very important doctrinal statements.

His work has no doubt a hortatory side, as we shall see, but that side is secondary.

He had assumed a very pompous, hortatory manner, and I could well believe he held a prominent position in Asbury class.

Love Cheats is the hortatory title of a play to be produced by Miss Horniman's company next month.

Let us hasten to add that they are rich in suggestion for lovers of apologetic or hortatory literature.

Alienor tells herself, however, that she is fortunate she is not troubled by worse things than hortatory friends.

Extracts from his hortatory letters which he published proved to Russians that his day was over.

Word Value for hortatory
Scrable

15

Words with friends

13

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