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adhortative, a.|ædˈhɔːtətɪv|
[f. adhortation + -ive.]
Expressing adhortation or exhortation: applied to the verbal mood which expresses an exhortation.
1845Stoddart Gram. in Encycl. Metrop. I. 52/2 Some writers have distinguished from the imperative, the precative, the deprecative, the permissive, the adhortative, [etc.]. 1934Priebsch & Collinson Germ. Lang. vi. 316 The adhortative gehen wir. 1963Visser Hist. Syntax Eng. Lang. i. iii. 190 In the Pres. D. suggestive or adhortative questions in which to be is construed with to do (as in: ‘Why don't you be reasonable?’). |