exhortative vs hortative

exhortative

adj
  • Appearing to exhort; in an urging manner. 

  • Inflected hortative verb form that a speaker uses to avidly encourage a listener. 

noun
  • The exhortative mood. 

hortative

adj
  • Urging, exhorting, or encouraging. 

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

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

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