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Answer for the clue "Hortatory ", 7 letters:
emotive

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Word definitions for emotive in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
“Emotional expressions”, also called “ emotives ” are an effort by the speaker to offer an interpretation of something that is observable to no other actor (Reddy 1997). If emotions are feelings , emotives are the expressions of those feelings through the ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. characterized by emotion [syn: affectional , affective ]

Usage examples of emotive.

Tawsar nor any of the other Wem within my emotive range are radiating feelings of hostility.

If the distinction which I formerly drew between the Scientific and the Artistic tendencies be accepted, it will disclose a corresponding difference in the Style which suits a ratiocinative exposition fixing attention on abstract relations, and an emotive exposition fixing attention on objects as related to the feelings.

Dolza, if Reno's report was to be believed, had subsequently elected to fold the entire armada to Earthspace, with designs to annihilate the planet before emotive contagion was spread to the remainder of the fleet.

This elicits the same emotive intensity as in regression or in Mack's abductee hypnosis.

I had witnessed them in furious disagreement on design issues, but you don't use emotive words like 'hate' about landscape gardening and room layouts.

Rivers and Borrow taught that neurophysiological processes in the mind-body, such as dreaming, promoted the integration of limbic system dramas, thus increasing awareness and encouraging cognitive and emotive areas to merge.

An avalanche of emotive and perceptual experience spread across a universe in which none of this had previously been known.

Bodies were straddling the court’s wrecked fittings, small orange fires gnawed hungrily at various jagged chunks of composite, and hatred was beaming through each of the doors like an emotive X ray.

Day establishes, if ever there was a doubt, that Arnold has the emotive ability of string cheese.