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Hortatory is an English word with synonyms like encouraging. Below you'll find 3 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.

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Hortatory in a sentence

Hortatory meaning

Giving exhortation or advice; encouraging.

Synonyms of Hortatory

exhortative exhortatory hortative encouraging

Related words

Other words often associated with Hortatory or its synonyms:

inspiriting supportive reassuring rallying heartening supporting hopeful discouraging helpful

Using Hortatory

  • The main meaning on this page is: Giving exhortation or advice; encouraging.
  • Useful related words include: exhortative, exhortatory, hortative, encouraging.
  • In the example corpus, hortatory often appears in combinations such as: and hortatory.

Context around Hortatory

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 24.3 words
  • Position in the sentence: 1 start, 2 middle, 0 end
  • Sentence types: 3 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often after:

ethical 1×

Sentence patterns with Hortatory

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

and a hortatory or strongly 1× behind an hortatory will or 1× didactic and hortatory ethical letters 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

ii two enormous 1× this letter consists 1× uda left behind 1×

Common sentence endings:

and a sermon 1× excerpt at right 1× to the readers 1×

Words around Hortatory

Just before it in the word index:

horta 35 hort 13 horsts 2 horston 2 horstmann 10 horstman 6

Just after it in the word index:

hortaya 5 horten 6 hortencia 2 hortense 40 hortensia 6 hortensis 2

Similar in corpus frequency:

aaai 6 aani 6 aarne 6 aarya 6 aasb 6 aasen 6

Corpus analysis for Hortatory

  • In this selection, "hortatory" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, ethical stand out and add context to how "hortatory" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include and a hortatory or strongly and behind an hortatory will or. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "hortatory" sits close to words such as aaai, aani and aarne, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with hortatory

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

II) two enormous didactic and hortatory ethical letters and a sermon. (11 words)

Uda left behind an hortatory will or testament which offered general admonitions or precepts Compare Precepts of Tokugawa Ieyasu for his son's guidance (see excerpt at right). (28 words)

This letter consists of two strands: an expositional or doctrinal strand, and a hortatory or strongly urging also translated "exhorting" strand which punctuates the exposition parenthetically at key points as warnings to the readers. (34 words)

Longer example sentences

This letter consists of two strands: an expositional or doctrinal strand, and a hortatory or strongly urging also translated "exhorting" strand which punctuates the exposition parenthetically at key points as warnings to the readers. (34 words)

Uda left behind an hortatory will or testament which offered general admonitions or precepts Compare Precepts of Tokugawa Ieyasu for his son's guidance (see excerpt at right). (28 words)

II) two enormous didactic and hortatory ethical letters and a sermon. (11 words)

Example sentences (3)

II) two enormous didactic and hortatory ethical letters and a sermon.

This letter consists of two strands: an expositional or doctrinal strand, and a hortatory or strongly urging also translated "exhorting" strand which punctuates the exposition parenthetically at key points as warnings to the readers.

Uda left behind an hortatory will or testament which offered general admonitions or precepts Compare Precepts of Tokugawa Ieyasu for his son's guidance (see excerpt at right).

Common combinations with hortatory

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "hortatory" in a sentence?
An example: "II) two enormous didactic and hortatory ethical letters and a sermon." This page contains 3 example sentences with the word "hortatory" from authentic English texts.
What does "hortatory" mean?
Hortatory means: Giving exhortation or advice; encouraging.
What are synonyms of "hortatory"?
Common synonyms of "hortatory" include: exhortative, exhortatory, hortative, encouraging.
How many example sentences with "hortatory" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains 3 example sentences with "hortatory", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.