Crossword-Solution: HORTATIVE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Hortative | a. | Giving exhortation; advisory; exhortative. |
| Hortative | n. | An exhortation. |
We have 3 clues for the answer “HORTATIVE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| tending to exhort | 1 answer |
| hortatory | 7 answers |
| urging | 59 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETREA
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greedy person
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Sentences with HORTATIVE (4)
Instead, therefore, of making a separate mood for every auxiliary verb, and introducing moods _interrogative_, _optative_, _promissive_, _hortative_, _precative_, &c., we have exhibited such only as are obviously distinct; and which, whilst they are calculated to unfold and display the subject intelligibly to the learner, seem to be sufficient, and not more than sufficient, to answer all the purposes for which moods were introduced.
See Hortative.] Defn: To incite by words or advice; to animate or urge by arguments, as to a good deed or laudable conduct; to address exhortation to; to urge strongly; hence, to advise, warn, or caution.
And he who says the Coming of Christ considered as a doctrine, as a truth or a motive, is not intensely practical and all-compelling to Christian devotion and service, is either blindly and excuselessly ignorant of the Word of God or brutally and perversely guilty of denying a truth that flashes like lightning from one end of the Bible to the other and illuminates every hortative passage in the Word of God.
The lower officers, in their turn, join in the cry, and a series of proclamations, by turns hortative and mandatory, are echoed from mastiff, spaniel, and poodle, until the cry ends upon the police.