How To Use hortative In A Sentence
- You've got to accentuate the hortative, eliminate pejoratives, latch on to the deprecative, and don't mess with Mr. In-Between. Languagehat.com: GO TO, THOU ART A FOOLISH FELLOW.
- From the schematic linearity of its structure to the hortative tone of its narration, the grant permeates each sequence as the blues infuses every composition by Duke Ellington. Not Quite All That Jazz
- My problem with today's liturgical bureaucracy is that it advances measurable technical goals at the same time it diminishes the more essential immeasurable exhortative ones at the heart of EACW.
- The perfects ( 'asithi and hizkartssni) are converted and so become hortative or precative futures. Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1
- As much as Tocqueville owes to Enlightenment insights, his work belongs, as well, to the counter-Enlightenment strain of the liberal tradition — impressionistic and exhortative, idealistic in its use of types and fatalistic in its approach to history, sentimental both in its portrayal of a declining aristocracy and in its invocation of the turbulent United States as a manner of natural order. The Visitor
- Note also how the imperative is followed by the cohortative in the last two verbs (K.S. 364n; G.K. 108 d). Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1
- The scriptures of Semitic inspiration are hortative, admonitory; they urge, they reprove, they enjoin, they warn.
- Chrysostom delivered a series of twenty or twenty-one (the nineteenth is probably not authentic) sermons, full of vigour, consolatory, exhortative, tranquilizing, until Flavian, the bishop, brought back from Constantinople the emperor's pardon. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
- The jussive (tehi) is followed by the cohortative nikhrethah (K.S. 364 g). Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1
- Yet his tone was urgent and campaign-trail feisty, peppered with the exhortative refrain of, "Pass this bill, now! President Obama's jobs speech: the verdict | The panel
