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exhortative

[ig-zawr-tuh-tiv] / ɪgˈzɔr tə tɪv /


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But his tone, neither exhortative nor triumphalist nor even particularly reassuring, is sort of … flat.

From Slate • Dec. 6, 2021

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

From New York Times • Jun. 24, 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

But the journal was not written with exhortative design.

From Liége on the Line of March An American Girl's Experiences When the Germans Came Through Belgium by Bigelow, Glenna Lindsley