Adjective : a hortatory speech. From Dictionary.com.
I learned, from a single sentence, the terms "hortatory", "nugatory", and "fiduciary", which in context were synonyms describing laws with no actual effect. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: BEAT THE JUDGE.] Reference
But purely hortatory language is legally unenforceable. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » A Constitutional Right to Self-Defense?] Reference
Q What do you do, though, besides take this hortatory approach?. From Wordnik.com. [Press Briefing By Mccurry And Steinberg] Reference
He wrote many articles, but they were usually hortatory things. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Broadus Mitchell, August 14 and 15, 1977. Interview B-0024. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
But to Schwarz that would be "the hortatory version of our history.". From Wordnik.com. [Letters] Reference
Veriword is "ecatio" which sounds like a Greek or Spanish hortatory. From Wordnik.com. [Recover'd Greenness] Reference
Summoned by a call from Latimer, he had resented his hortatory manner. From Wordnik.com. [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]
It's there in Patti Smith's visionary diction and hortatory intensity. From Wordnik.com. [April 2006] Reference
I don't need this little hortatory lecture about layers of data, geez. From Wordnik.com. [The MMO Powerplant] Reference
The bill contains hortatory language but is precariously weak in the details. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Reich: The New Finance Bill: A Mountain of Legislative Paper, a Molehill of Reform] Reference
In the speaking pause that followed there was audible an unknown hortatory voice from the smoking-room. From Wordnik.com. [The Coast of Chance] Reference
It is purely hortatory -- even assuming we could agree on what "protecting the taxpayer" actually means. From Wordnik.com. [Howard Schweber: Paulson's Plan -- Annotated] Reference
And what about the even more recently discovered acting talent he exhibits on that hortatory "Fool" item!. From Wordnik.com. [David Finkle: Hot New Night Club Duo: Michael Feinstein and David Hyde Pierce] Reference
Symbolism, graphic art and hortatory inscriptions were prominent in all forms of ID-approved architecture. From Wordnik.com. [ID and Fine Art ... well, it's all relative I suppose - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
The tenor of these remarks is hortatory, ascetic and even visionary: our task is to cleanse our souls from the. From Wordnik.com. [Al-Kindi] Reference
Israel was established after a General Assembly vote that, while hortatory, was going to be honored by the UK. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » The Finkelstein Affair:] Reference
In fact, they probably have that freedom in most schools now, unless they use it to launch a hortatory lecture. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
General Assembly Resolution 181II, like General Assembly resolutions generally, was hortatory rather than binding. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » The Finkelstein Affair:] Reference
He wants something that is both a combination of oratory and hortatory, and also specific substantive achievements. From Wordnik.com. [Press Briefing By Mike Mccurry] Reference
For hortatory or inspirational purposes we do not need to make this analysis; it has, indeed, its practical dangers. From Wordnik.com. [Problems of Conduct] Reference
But his strategies for restoring respect for pluralism and a civil, reasoned political discourse are mostly hortatory. From Wordnik.com. [Yale Press Log:] Reference
He had assumed a very pompous, hortatory manner, and I could well believe he held a prominent position in Asbury class. From Wordnik.com. [Stories by American Authors, Volume 6] Reference
It was heavily hortatory, inspirational, and filled with social criticism, and frankly, I can't get enough of that stuff. From Wordnik.com. [Saturday at the Harlem Book Fair: Culture and Controversy] Reference
This hortatory introduction is succeeded by the specific laws which form the main body of the book (xii. -xxvi., xxviii.). From Wordnik.com. [Introduction to the Old Testament] Reference
I can imgagine many international treaties that are hortatory in nature that we would not wish to become binding US policy. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » The No on Koh Letter:] Reference
The fifth division is hortatory, or of morals as applied to duty, and embraces the art of rhetoric and other subsidiary arts. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860] Reference
It was not just a juvenile--and gaspingly funny--piece, it was also a send-up of an Oscar staple, the hortatory movie montage. From Wordnik.com. [Jon Stewart Vs. The Oscars - Tuned In - TIME.com] Reference
The antecedent is often thus attracted into the relative clause, né omittámus, 'let us not neglect,' the hortatory subjunctive. From Wordnik.com. [Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles A First Latin Reader] Reference
“I can imgagine many international treaties that are hortatory in nature that we would not wish to become binding US policy.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » The No on Koh Letter:] Reference
Was it not Mr. ALBERT CHEVALIER who used to sing some hortatory lyrics upon the inadvisability of introducing your donah to a pal?. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, June 6, 1917] Reference
Lenin, with his knack for hortatory pungency, reduced the past and future alike to two pronouns and a question mark: “Who—whom?”. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Norm Matloff Profiled In Business Week] Reference
All they do is quote some hortatory language from the declaration, not the actual enforceable provisions in the Ayalo (ph) conventions. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 27, 2007] Reference
But, we believe that a transformation in American attitudes and behavior will not come from exhortation and hortatory comments, but from systemic change. From Wordnik.com. [Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler: Narcissistic Night Sweats] Reference
"I just don't think we should be wasting our time on hortatory resolutions.". From Wordnik.com. [Times Record News Stories] Reference
This language is largely hortatory; nothing here requires LDCs to cut a check. From Wordnik.com. [Hot Air » Top Picks] Reference
Inane billboards touting Louisville as a premier college town always came across as a hortatory marketing ploy unmoored from reality. From Wordnik.com. Reference
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