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has gloss | eng: The hortative (abbreviated , ) is a group of semantically similar deontic moods in some languages, especially English. Hortative moods encourage or urge. There are seven hortative moods in English: the adhortative, exhortative, suprahortative, cohortative, dehortative, inhortative, and infrahortative. They differ by intensity, attitude (for or against) and in the case of the cohortative, person. |
lexicalization | eng: hortative |
instance of | e/Grammatical mood |
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