hortative

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Urging, exhorting, or encouraging

The ministration of these oracles from the pulpit is to be reformed from any of its factitious peculiarities, and made again what it was among the apostles and their immediate successors—earnest, simple, powerful address—hortative talk, if we may so call it.

A mood or class of imperative subjunctive moods of a verb for giving strong encouragement
Of a mood or class of imperative subjunctive moods of a verb for giving strong encouragement
{n} an exhortation, advice
{a} tending to exhort or advise
giving strong encouragement
{s} hortatory, encouraging, inciting
An exhortation
Giving exhortation; advisory; exhortative
hortation
{n} an exhortation, advice
hortation
The act of exhorting, inciting, or giving advice; exhortation
hortative
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