hortative vs pedantic

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. 

pedantic

adj
  • Being overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning, like a pedant. 

  • Being showy of one’s knowledge, often in a boring manner. 

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