Today's Word "hortatory"
Published in Vocabulary
hortatory \HOR-tuh-tor-ee\ (adjective) - Marked by strong urging; serving to encourage or incite; as, "a hortatory speech."
"Giles later gave up the position in the conviction that he could reach thousands with his beguiling pen while only hundreds with his hortatory voice."
Hortatory is from Latin hortatorius, from hortari, "to exhort, to incite, to encourage."
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