hortatory

Definition

Giving exhortation or advice; encouraging.

Etymology

From Middle French hortatoire, from Latin hortor (“encourage”).

Example Sentences

• "The words were ordinary enough, and to my mind there was in them something so hortatory that I almost smiled."
• "Some of these books were, on the face of it, frivolous and facetious; but many, on the other hand, were serious and prophetic, moral and hortatory."
• "Not in a curse but in a hortatory appeal."