hortative vs preceptive

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. 

preceptive

adj

  • Of, pertaining to, or based on precepts 

  • instructive; didactic 

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