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Definition of Exhortative
1. Adjective. Giving strong encouragement.
Similar to: Encouraging
Derivative terms: Exhort, Exhort
Definition of Exhortative
1. a. Serving to exhort; exhortatory; hortative.
Definition of Exhortative
1. Adjective. (comparable) Appearing to exhort; in an urging manner. ¹
2. Adjective. (context: grammar not comparable) Inflected hortative verb form that a speaker uses to avidly encourage a listener. ¹
3. Noun. The exhortative mood. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Exhortative
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Exhortative
Literary usage of Exhortative
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1862)
"One is argumentative, and the other appealing and exhortative. ... He loses the
immense advantages of the exhortative address, and (unless in the case of ..."
2. Essays on the Pursuits of Women by Frances Power Cobbe (1863)
"One is argumentative, and the other appealing and exhortative. For public meetings,
where lines ... He loses the immense advantages of the exhortative ad- ..."
3. A Commentary on the Epistle to the Hebrews by August Tholuck (1842)
"To the observation of Bleek, that, while the fact cannot be denied, yet, that
this manner of address occurs only in exhortative, reprehensive discourse, ..."
4. A Commentary on the Epistle to the Hebrews by August Tholuck (1842)
"To the observation of Bleek, that, while the fact cannot be denied, yet, that
this manner of address occurs only in exhortative, reprehensive discourse, ..."
5. A Manual of the Chikaranga Language, with Grammar, Exercises, Useful by C. S. Louw (1915)
"exhortative Mood. Sing. let me be, nga ndi ye or ndi ye. Plur. let us be, nga ti ye,
... exhortative Mood. nga ndi sa ya ; or nga ndi rege ku ya. ..."
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