Hortatory vs Jussive - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between hortatory and jussive

is that hortatory is giving exhortation or advice; encouraging; exhortatory; inciting while jussive is (grammar|of a verb) inflected to indicate commands, permission or agreement with a request.

As nouns the difference between hortatory and jussive

is that hortatory is exhortation or advice; incitement; encouragement while jussive is (grammar|uncountable|and|countable) the jussive mood, a verb inflection used to indicate a command, permission or agreement with a request; an instance of a verb so inflected.

hortatory

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Giving exhortation or advice; encouraging; exhortatory; inciting.

* 1992 , , Penguin Books, paperback edition, page 47

Not in a curse but in a hortatory appeal.

Synonyms

* (encouraging) protreptic

Noun

(hortatories)

Exhortation or advice; incitement; encouragement.

* 2004 , , Westward: A Fictional History of the American West , Macmillan, page 53

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.

That which exhorts, incites, or encourages.

* 1907 , , Macmillan and Company, seventh edition, page 12

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.

jussive

English

Adjective

(-)

(grammar, of a verb) Inflected to indicate commands, permission or agreement with a request.

Synonyms

* (in Arabic grammar) apocopate

Noun

(en-noun)

(grammar, uncountable, and, countable) The jussive mood, a verb inflection used to indicate a command, permission or agreement with a request; an instance of a verb so inflected.

* 1990 , Bruce K. Waltke, Michael Patrick O?Connor, An Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Syntax , page 566,

For example, in the Aaronide blessing, only two of the six verbs are formally jussives , yet all have the same volitional sense.

* 2003 , Robert E. Longacre, Joseph: A Story of Divine Providence: A Text Theoretical and Textlinguistic Analysis of Genesis 37 and 39-48 , 2nd edition, footnote, page 121,

As far as the jussive' goes — ignoring the very few occurrences of this in first person — it can be noted that most of the second-person ' jussives are in negative commands.

* 2003 , Sharon Rose, The formation of Ethiopian Semitic internal reduplication'', Joseph Shimron (editor), ''Language Processing and Acquisition in Languages of Semitic, Root-Based, Morphology , page 90,

If, on the other hand, reference is made purely to the root, we would expect all frequentative jussives to appear with a front element, producing *m?t??t??s'' instead of ''m?t??t??s (19d).

* 2006 , Robert Ray Ellis, Learning to Read Biblical Hebrew: An Introductory Grammar , page 174,

The jussive and cohortative usually convey more indirect, or more subtle, expressions of volition than the imperative does.

Usage notes

The is similar to the cohortative mood, except that it also applies to verbs in the second and third person. Although the jussive mood is absent from English, it is present in Hebrew, Arabic, and Esperanto.