Portative vs Hortative - What's the difference?
portative | hortative |
portable
(obsolete) Capable of holding up or carrying.
(comparable) Urging, exhorting, or encouraging.
* 1854 , "The Preaching Required by the Times" (Editorial), The National Magazine , New York, vol. 4, no. 1 (Jan.), pp. 79-80.
(grammar, not comparable) Of a mood or class of imperative subjunctive moods of a verb for giving strong encouragement.
(grammar) A mood or class of imperative subjunctive moods of a verb for giving strong encouragement.
As adjectives the difference between portative and hortative
is that portative is portable while hortative is (comparable) urging, exhorting, or encouraging.As a noun hortative is
(grammar) a mood or class of imperative subjunctive moods of a verb for giving strong encouragement.portative
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- the portative force of a magnet, of atmospheric pressure, or of capillarity
hortative
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The ministration of these oracles from the pulpit is to be reformed from any of its factitious peculiarities, and made again what it was among the apostles and their immediate successors—earnest, simple, powerful address—hortative talk, if we may so call it.
