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exhortative

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ex·hor·ta·tive  (g-zôrt-tv) also ex·hor·ta·to·ry (-tôr, -tr)
adj.
Acting or intended to encourage, incite, or advise.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.exhortative - giving strong encouragement
encouraging - giving courage or confidence or hope; "encouraging advances in medical research"


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Even his language on posters fell into line with the exhortative tone on Soviet posters when they urged, "Let us all fulfill the plan of the great projects.
Here, the voice is not imperative, and it does not try to address the viewer directly; rather, it is exhortative, and it implicitly addresses, in plain Italian, the Italian team.
Peter Burke has mobilized his decades of work in social and cultural history in order to write this exhortative book exploring the value of images for historical writing.
 
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