Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Acting or intended to encourage, incite, or advise.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Containing exhortation; hortatory.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Serving to exhort; exhortatory; hortative.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective comparable Appearing to
exhort ; in anurging manner. - adjective grammar, not comparable Inflected
hortative verb form that a speaker uses toavidly encourage a listener. - noun The
exhortative mood .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective giving strong encouragement
Etymologies
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Examples
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Yet his tone was urgent and campaign-trail feisty, peppered with the exhortative refrain of, "Pass this bill, now!"
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Look, I can already picture you rolling your eyes as your read this at least inwardly; and yes, I know I've said "look" twice now, and yes, I remember how you resent it when books take an "exhortative" tone with you . . . — but isn't it a half-knowing eye roll?
Portland Vagabonder [Card #8: Strength] [WORK-IN-PROGRESS] Christopher Snyder 2011
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As much as Tocqueville owes to Enlightenment insights, his work belongs, as well, to the counter-Enlightenment strain of the liberal tradition — impressionistic and exhortative, idealistic in its use of types and fatalistic in its approach to history, sentimental both in its portrayal of a declining aristocracy and in its invocation of the turbulent United States as a manner of natural order.
The Visitor 2010
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Just as important, though, is a difference in function between retrospective appraisal and present judgments that have an exhortative function as much as anything else.
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The difference between prohibitative and exhortative social feedback mechanisms is much more significant than people like to think.
Morality and the liberal Alix Mortimer 2009
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Nor are these assertions mere neutral constations; they are exhortative performatives that require the passage from sheer enunciation to action.
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The band's first and most conventionally soul-like album, A Whole New Thing, was a flop, but the exhortative title song of album two, "Dance to the Music," became their first Top 10 hit, in 1968, and remains a party standard to this day.
Sly Stone's Higher Power Kamp, David 2007
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Several of the mestizo's friends were supporting him, mainly with their physical presence, although they became vocally exhortative from time to time.
Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000
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Several of the mestizo's friends were supporting him, mainly with their physical presence, although they became vocally exhortative from time to time.
Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000
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Chrysostom delivered a series of twenty or twenty-one (the nineteenth is probably not authentic) sermons, full of vigour, consolatory, exhortative, tranquilizing, until Flavian, the bishop, brought back from Constantinople the emperor's pardon.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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