Pronounced: bawr-buh-RIG-muss, noun
Notes: Really? There’s a word for that?
Yesterday’s word
The word hortatory means “strongly urging”
First usage
Our word came into English in the late 1500s
Background / Comments
As I noted, I’ve run across our word. I’ve read or heard the phrases “hortatory preaching” and “hortatory exhortation” (the latter being an intensification of words with similar meanings). I as thinking of loud speech or intense speech, so I was pretty close in the meaning. However, I don’t think the term is well known, so I included it here. It came from the Latin word hortari (to urge).
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