Hortatory vs Provocative - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between hortatory and provocative

is that hortatory is giving exhortation or advice; encouraging; exhortatory; inciting while provocative is serving or tending to elicit a strong, often negative sentiment in another person; exasperating.

As nouns the difference between hortatory and provocative

is that hortatory is exhortation or advice; incitement; encouragement while provocative is .

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.

provocative

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Serving or tending to elicit a strong, often negative sentiment in another person; exasperating.

Serving or tending to excite, stimulate or arouse sexual interest.

Noun

(en noun)

* 1723 , Charles Walker, Memoirs of the Life of Sally Salisbury :

She used by way of Provocative , to read the wanton Verses of her (Paramour) in the day time [...].

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