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Exhortatory

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adj. Serving to exhort.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Of or pertaining to exhortation; hortatory.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Tending to exhort; serving for exhortation.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. giving strong encouragement

Word Usage

"With her spiked, streaked hair and rapid-fire, exhortatory way of speaking, Mari Carmen Ramírez, the curator of Latin American art at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, could easily have been a political agitator."

Equivalent

encouraging

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

hortatory