Hortatory vs Persuasive - What's the difference?
hortatory | persuasive |
Giving exhortation or advice; encouraging; exhortatory; inciting.
* 1992 , , Penguin Books, paperback edition, page 47
Exhortation or advice; incitement; encouragement.
* 2004 , , Westward: A Fictional History of the American West , Macmillan, page 53
That which exhorts, incites, or encourages.
* 1907 , , Macmillan and Company, seventh edition, page 12
As adjectives the difference between hortatory and persuasive
is that hortatory is giving exhortation or advice; encouraging; exhortatory; inciting while persuasive is able to persuade; convincing.As a noun hortatory
is exhortation or advice; incitement; encouragement.hortatory
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Not in a curse but in a hortatory appeal.
Synonyms
* (encouraging) protrepticNoun
(hortatories)- I did not know enough of the Book to understand his hortatory but it seemed to please Miz Ann, who thanked him for his blessings, said she did not require his other services, and that he had paid for his meal with his message.
- For here as in other points the development of the theory of Ethics would seem to be somewhat impeded by the preponderance of practical considerations; and perhaps a more complete detachment of the theoretical study of right conduct from its practical application is to be desired for the sake even of the latter itself: since a treatment which is a compound between the scientific and the hortatory is apt to miss both the results that it would combine; the mixture is bewildering to the brain and not stimulating to the heart.
