Parson, under high excitement, rained his hortative oratory upon me. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference
How did the mere hortative manage to exist alongside the deprecative?. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: GO TO, THOU ART A FOOLISH FELLOW.] Reference
January 25th, 2007 at 5: 55 am awesome idea! so easy, so powerfull, so hortative. From Wordnik.com. [REVERSE GRAFFITI: Clean Green Street Art | Inhabitat] Reference
This with similar usages throughout the KJV seems to be merely hortative, bleached of any chiding tone. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: GO TO, THOU ART A FOOLISH FELLOW.] Reference
"You've got to accentuate the hortative, eliminate pejoratives, latch on to the deprecative, and don't mess with Mr. In-Between.". From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: GO TO, THOU ART A FOOLISH FELLOW.] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Not Quite All That Jazz] Reference
He knew some members of the congregation, including the president, grew restive during his discourse, and would have preferred a more oratorical, hortative style, but he felt his type of sermon was more in keeping with his basic function of teacher, implicit in the word "rabbi.". From Wordnik.com. [Saturday the Rabbi Went Hungry]
W. conceives wrece as optative or hortative, and places a colon before þonne. l. From Wordnik.com. [Beowulf] Reference
The hortative "Let us make" (na'aseh), is particularly striking because it is plural. From Wordnik.com. [Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1] Reference
In niqra 'the final long syllable with' aleph takes the place ` of the usual ah hortative. From Wordnik.com. [Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1] Reference
The perfects ( 'asithi and hizkartssni) are converted and so become hortative or precative futures. From Wordnik.com. [Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1] Reference
Now it is true enough that an imperative may be joined to a hortative (K.S. 364n), but it cannot be denied that this is. From Wordnik.com. [Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1] Reference
Note the enclitic na ', intensifying or adding vividness to a jussive in v. 7 and to a hortative in v. 8 (K.S. 355 b). From Wordnik.com. [Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1] Reference
All the three imperfects used here have the "ah hortative" added (jaqtul elevatum), a common form with the first person imperfect. From Wordnik.com. [Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1] Reference
The ending ah on the imperative and the imperfect make the hortative form help to express how Isaac is strengthening himself in his resolution to go through with the undertaking. From Wordnik.com. [Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1] Reference
Wanniphtechah (v. 21) is one of those rarer forms where an imperfect with waw conversive has an "ah hortative" (yaktul gravatum, K.S. 200), which ending has completely lost its force. From Wordnik.com. [Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1] Reference
Instead of being an imperfect hortative, it "is the imperative," and be thou "(wehyeh). From Wordnik.com. [Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1] Reference
"come" (Whitelaw: "come on") in v. 3 and again in v. 4, Habhah, imperative, strong form, from yahabh, though second person, used with the hortative first person (K.S. 355 g). From Wordnik.com. [Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1] Reference
'Eqberah is a hortative imperfect. From Wordnik.com. [Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1] Reference
The verbs have the hortative ending ah. From Wordnik.com. [Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1] Reference
A hortative remark. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Speller; Containing Exercises for Oral Spelling; also, Sentences for Silent Spelling by Writing from Dictation. In Which the Representative Words and the Anomalous Words of the English Language are so Classified as to Indicate Their Pronunciation, and to be Fixed in the Memory by Association.] Reference
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