didactic vs hortative

didactic

adj
  • Instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate, especially with regard to morality. 

  • Excessively moralizing. 

  • Teaching from textbooks rather than laboratory demonstration and clinical application. 

hortative

adj
  • Of a mood or class of imperative subjunctive moods of a verb for giving strong encouragement. 

  • Urging, exhorting, or encouraging. 

noun
  • A mood or class of imperative subjunctive moods of a verb for giving strong encouragement. 

How often have the words didactic and hortative occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )