exhorting vs hortative

exhorting

noun
  • exhortation 

hortative

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

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

  • Urging, exhorting, or encouraging. 

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