hortative

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The Word of the Day for May 23 is: 

hortative   \HOR-tuh-tiv\   adjective
     : giving exhortation : advisory

Example sentence:
      Amy suspected that her hortative letter to her son about the values of 
hard work and education would be ignored in the swirl of freshman partying, but 
she sent it anyway.

Did you know?
     "We give nothing so freely as advice," observed French writer Duc de La 
Rochefoucauld in 1665. "Hortative" and "exhort" (meaning "to urge earnestly") 
are two words that testify to our eagerness to counsel others. Both trace to 
the Latin "hortari," meaning "to urge." "Hortative" has been used as both a 
noun (meaning "an advisory comment") and as an adjective since the 17th 
century. The noun is now uncommon, but it makes an appearance now and then, as 
in a 1992 article in The New York Times : "Facing directly into the camera, Mr. 
[Ross] Perot chronicled what he called the decline and potential fall of the 
American economy, keeping up a steady stream of hortatives as he went along. 
'Let's just raise the hood and go to work!' he said. 'Let's just link arms and 
go do it!'"





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