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Exhortatory   Listen
adjective
Exhortatory  adj.  Of or pertaining to exhortation; hortatory.






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"Exhortatory" Quotes from Famous Books



... however, were disappointed that he had as yet given no indication of that powerful exhortatory emotion for which he was famed, and which had been said to excite certain corresponding corybantic symptoms among his sensitive female worshipers. When the service was over, and the congregation crowded around him, Sister Mary Strutt, on the outer fringe of the assembly, confided ...
— A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's and Other Stories • Bret Harte

... him talking. It seemed as if he were talking with some one. His voice had an exhortatory but tender tone in it. Philippina trembled with fear. Once she even pressed the latch; she wanted to open the door as quietly as possible, so that she might peep in and see what was really going on. But to her vexation, the door was bolted ...
— The Goose Man • Jacob Wassermann



Words linked to "Exhortatory" :   encouraging, hortatory, hortative



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