exhortative

American  

[ig-zawr-tuh-tiv] / ɪgˈzɔr tə tɪv /

Also exhortatory

adjective

1. serving or intended to exhort.

2. pertaining to exhortation.

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Other Word Forms

• exhortatively adverb
• nonexhortative adjective
• nonexhortatory adjective
• unexhortative adjective

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

Detaching himself early from that exacting church, while retaining a touch of its exhortative spirit, he developed an interest in dance.

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Not far behind is the pulpit dervish Clara Walker, whose exhortative way with a tune doubles as furnace and fan.

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In it, the exhortative words of James Baldwin and Martin Luther King, Jr. have been converted into a musical score, recordings of which sound through the gallery.

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Neither the Apple nor the Gabriel plays are exhortative in any polemical way.

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Coates’s writing on race and politics combines reportage, deep dives into history and the sort of exhortative truth-telling that merits the heady adjective “prophetic.”

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