Hortation


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Hor`ta´tion


n.1.The act of exhorting, inciting, or giving advice; exhortation.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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The hortation was extended to the international level in M Taggart, 'The Tub of Public Law', in D Dyzenhaus, ed, The Unity of Public Law, Oxford, Hart, 2004, 455, 479.
Practitioners ought to keep in mind that in the context of warfighting, their target audiences are historically disposed to consider presentations about the relevancy of legal factors more as aspirational hortations than as recitations of pragmatic, warfighting essentials.