exhortative
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Etymology
Origin of exhortative
1400–50; late Middle English < Latin exhortātīvus, equivalent to exhortāt ( us ) (past participle of exhortārī to exhort ) + -īvus -ive
Example Sentences
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Detaching himself early from that exacting church, while retaining a touch of its exhortative spirit, he developed an interest in dance.
From New York Times • Nov. 15, 2024
But his tone, neither exhortative nor triumphalist nor even particularly reassuring, is sort of … flat.
From Slate • Dec. 6, 2021
His ephemeral work — anti-normality, anti-materialist, anti-classist — had assumed an exhortative, prophetical tone.
From New York Times • Jan. 10, 2019
Even the stations of the subway system, which rivals Moscow's, have such exhortative names as "Rehabilitation" and "National Building" and bear huge frescoes of the President.
From Time Magazine Archive
I have omitted consideration of many works which bear on Evolutional Ethics as practical or exhortative treatises, or compilations of facts, but which involve no distinctly worked-out theory of morals.
From A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by Williams, C. M.
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