hortatory

/hawr-tuh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee/US // ˈhɔr təˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i //UK // (ˈhɔːtətərɪ, -trɪ) //

劝告性的,劝告性,劝导性,劝说性

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective

1
- : urging to some course of conduct or action; exhorting; encouraging: a hortatory speech.

His work has no doubt a hortatory side, as we shall see, but that side is secondary.
This gave De Gollyer a certain hortatory moment of which he availed himself, seeking to reduce further the dramatic tension.
Is there some fatality which makes the pen that treats of Commencement hortatory and didactic?
The book is thus almost wholly in the form of address, and the hortatory note is insistent.
The latter then loses its peculiar flavor of the didactic and pedantic; its ultra-moralistic and hortatory tone.