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Meanings of exhortative in English

Giving strong encouragement.

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Examples for "hortatory"
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Even in his didactic poems, he is meditative and descriptive rather than hortatory.
Poets of the South / A Series of Biographical and Critical Studi...
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The epistles of the apostles are either hortatory or argumentative.
Evidences of Christianity
3
I had made a hortatory hit, and it was encored.
When Grandmamma Was New: The Story of a Virginia Childhood
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He became didactic, judicial, hortatory; Edith Whyland almost questioned her right to be a mother.
Under the Skylights
5
In the speaking pause that followed there was audible an unknown hortatory voice from the smoking-room.
The Coast of Chance
1
The pain made him more tedious, long-winded and exhortatory than usual.
South Wind
2
His voice had an exhortatory but tender tone in it.
The Goose Man
3
The Obama administration has adopted a similar exhortatory stance.
The Guardian
4
The duty in our text, with the duty in our hands, pressing them on still in an exhortatory way.
The Covenants And The Covenanters / Covenants, Sermons, and Docu...
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I could take no part in it but an exhortatory one, because I was a stranger to the circumstances which should govern it.
George Washington
Usage of exhortative in English
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Stephen Masterton felt his throat swell with his old exhortative indignation.
Selected Stories of Bret Harte
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Reb Sender pursued his "exhortative talk."
The Rise of David Levinsky
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Ta-Nehisi said he thought ­Morrison's praise was essentially literary, about the echo of Baldwin's direct and exhortative prose in his own.
NY Magazine
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Father Bernardus was too continually exhortative, and fenced too much to "hit the eyeball of her conscience," as he phrased it, to afford her repose.
Vittoria — Volume 5
Exhortative through the time