Definition of "exhortative" [ex•hor•ta•tive]

• Acting or intended to encourage, incite, or advise. (adjective)

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• "Look, I can already picture you rolling your eyes as your read this at least inwardly; and yes, I know I've said "look" twice now, and yes, I remember how you resent it when books take an "exhortative" tone with you . . . — but isn't it a half-knowing eye roll?"
• "Yet his tone was urgent and campaign-trail feisty, peppered with the exhortative refrain of, "Pass this bill, now!""
• "As much as Tocqueville owes to Enlightenment insights, his work belongs, as well, to the counter-Enlightenment strain of the liberal tradition — impressionistic and exhortative, idealistic in its use of types and fatalistic in its approach to history, sentimental both in its portrayal of a declining aristocracy and in its invocation of the turbulent United States as a manner of natural order."