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Exhortatory

//ɛɡˈzɔːtətɪv// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Serving to exhort.

    "[…] and therefore we ſee Chriſts words ran not in an Annunciative, but an exhortatory ſtile, He tels us not that Mammon ſhall make us friends, but excites us to make that our own care, […]"

Adjective
  1. 1
    giving strong encouragement wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English, from Late Latin exhortātōrius. By surface analysis, exhort + -atory.

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