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PRONUNCIATION OF EXHORTATIVE

exhortative  [ɪɡˈzɔːtətɪv] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF EXHORTATIVE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Exhortative is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES EXHORTATIVE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Hortative

The hortative is a group of semantically similar deontic modalities in some languages. Hortative modalities encourage or urge. In English, there are seven hortative modalities: the adhortative, exhortative, suprahortative, cohortative, dehortative, inhortative, and infrahortative. They differ by intensity, attitude and in the case of the cohortative, person.

Definition of exhortative in the English dictionary

The definition of exhortative in the dictionary is intended to exhort.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH EXHORTATIVE


assortative
əˈsɔːtətɪv
cohortative
kəʊˈhɔːtətɪv
commutative
kəˈmjuːtətɪv
computative
kəmˈpjuːtətɪv
confutative
kənˈfjuːtətɪv
dehortative
dɪˈhɔːtətɪv
disputative
dɪˈspjuːtətɪv
hortative
ˈhɔːtətɪv
imputative
ɪmˈpjuːtətɪv
mutative
ˈmjuːtətɪv
noncommutative
ˌnɒnkəˈmjuːtətɪv
portative
ˈpɔːtətɪv
putative
ˈpjuːtətɪv
qualitative
ˈkwɒlɪtətɪv
quantitative
ˈkwɒntɪtətɪv
representative
ˌrɛprɪˈzɛntətɪv
reputative
rɪˈpjuːtətɪv
sternutative
stɜːˈnjuːtətɪv
tentative
ˈtɛntətɪv
transmutative
trænzˈmjuːtətɪv

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE EXHORTATIVE

exhibitively
exhibitor
exhibitory
exhilarant
exhilarate
exhilarated
exhilarating
exhilaratingly
exhilaration
exhilarative
exhilarator
exhilaratory
exhort
exhortation
exhortatory
exhorter
exhumation
exhumation order
exhume
exhumer

WORDS THAT END LIKE EXHORTATIVE

active
administrative
alternative
collaborative
comparative
conservative
cooperative
creative
cumulative
decorative
derivative
in the negative
informative
initiative
innovative
legislative
narrative
native
negative
operative
relative

Synonyms and antonyms of exhortative in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «exhortative» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF EXHORTATIVE

Find out the translation of exhortative to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of exhortative from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «exhortative» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

劝勉
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

exhortativo
570 millions of speakers

English

exhortative
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

exhortative
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

exhortative
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

увещевательный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

exortativo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

মিনতিপূর্ণ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

exhortation
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Exhortative
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

exhortative
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

exhortative
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

exhortative
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Exhortative
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

có ý
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

exhortative
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

उपदेशात्मक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

exhortative
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

esortativa
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

exhortative
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

увідомлюючий
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

exortativă
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

exhortative
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

aangesporend
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

uppmanande
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

exhortative
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of exhortative

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «EXHORTATIVE»

The term «exhortative» is used very little and occupies the 164.617 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «EXHORTATIVE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about exhortative

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EXHORTATIVE»

Discover the use of exhortative in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to exhortative and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Verbal Periphrases in a Functional Grammar of Spanish
Of the two operators to be discussed in this section, one is an auxiliary operator in the sense that it is triggered by the Illocution Exhortative Imperative, (8.2.4.1.), and the other is a modifying operator, which expresses mitigation in declarative ...
Hella Olbertz, 1998
2
A Grammar of Kwaza
three special prohibitive moods were identified and described: negative imperative, negative exhortative and monitory. They form the respective counterparts to the three persuasive moods imperative, exhortative causative and volitive.
Hein van der Voort, 2004
3
Linguistic Studies in Academic and Professional English
Goal: To develop both learners' awareness and oral production of three exhortative speech acts by means of contextualised communicative situations in a specific ESP situation. Procedure: 1 ) Students are presented with three different film or ...
Juan Carlos Palmer Silveira, 2004
4
Law and Language: Current Legal Issues
It is a crucially important feature of exhortatives that the first person pronoun is always implicit in the expression ofthe exhortative; it always makes a difference who the speaker is, so to speak. When I make a request, for example, it is an ...
Michael Freeman, Fiona Smith, 2013
5
Representing the Immigrant Experience: Morris Rosenfeld and ...
matic priorities of their immigrant, working-class audience, gave the exhortative poem a new, more urgent message. Specifically, Rosenfeld and his contemporaries invested the exhortative poem with their preferred ideologies, namely, ...
Marc Miller, 2007
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The Handbook of Hispanic Linguistics
The sentential force of exhortative constructions is that of ordering, requesting, or urging someone to do something. Exhortative force may also be expressed with many different constructions or forms. Commands are a subtype of exhortatives.
José Ignacio Hualde, Antxon Olarrea, Erin O'Rourke, 2013
7
A Grammar and Dictionary of Zaiwa (2 Vols.)
12.16 THE VERB <lye35> 'COME (AWAY/DOWN)' AS THE BENEFACTIVE EXHORTATIVE CLAUSE MARKER The verb <lye35> 'come (away/down)' can also be used in a rather special way, as the benefactive exhortative clause marker ...
Anton Lustig, 2010
8
Corpora: Pragmatics and Discourse : Papers from the 29th ...
Figure 2: In Middle English, figures for exhortation proper and exhortative acts are rather even: both kinds of exhortation occur in similar proportions in the data. Early Modern English texts, on the other hand, almost exclusively make use of ...
Andreas H. Jucker, Daniel Schreier, Marianne Hundt, 2009
9
Duty, Language and Exegesis in Pr?bh?kara M?m??s?: Including ...
Some Bh ̄a ̇t ̇tas maintain that the prescriptive (or “linguistic”) force is a function (vy ̄ap ̄ara) of exhortative verbal endings. The proposal of a “function” as the characteristic of linguistic elements might be useful in order to avoid the ...
Elisa Freschi, 2012
10
Flannery O'Connor: New Perspectives
Flannery O'Connor seems to have struck a nerve, and I believe she has done so because she has written an exhortative novel. I use the term "exhortation" here in the sense introduced by Edwin Black in his pioneering 1965 study of modern ...
Sura Prasad Rath, Mary Neff Shaw, 1996

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «EXHORTATIVE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term exhortative is used in the context of the following news items.
1
A close look at Thomas Hart Benton
The whole feel of the exhibition — letting the viewer live in Benton's artistic climate, and not peppering visitors with exhortative explanations ... «Wicked Local Marblehead, Jul 15»
2
Israel Targeted for International Isolation by the EU, Vatican and FIFA
... the accuracy of the translation by the Israellycool blog, which pointed out that the Italian was written in the exhortative (using the word "sia"). «The Jewish Voice, May 15»
3
Did the Pope Really Call Abbas an 'Angel of Peace'?
... the accuracy of the translation by the Israellycool blog, which pointed out that the Italian was written in the exhortative (using the word "sia"). «Arutz Sheva, May 15»
4
Ain't no time to hate
I really hope that the ECB and its cohorts would gulp down your dose of exhortative medicine with real healing effect! on May 17, 2015, 10:35 ... «ESPNcricinfo.com, May 15»
5
Pope Francis' Transformational Message on the Environment and …
An encyclical generally seeks to clarify or expound upon Church teachings on a particular subject and is usually exhortative in tone. This will be ... «Natural Resources Defense Council, May 15»
6
Shaking things up
Vocal political leaders who don't miss an opportunity to be seen at public gatherings to give long exhortative speeches are conspicuously ... «Nepali times, Apr 15»
7
Bern Porter: Never Finish
... your own visual poem by putting together words and images the way Bern Porter did” aligns nicely with the exhortative collages nearby. «Hyperallergic, Apr 15»
8
Poetic Sickness: Ed Bok Lee's 'Whorled' illuminates earlier innocence
There is wizened insight and well-wrought precision of form in the movement from the exhortative in Real Karaoke People to the meditative in ... «The International Examiner, Apr 15»
9
Woman Matters
Instead of exhortative for doing such kind of line of work, they are being hushed-up. They are being forced to beg on streets. It's a kind of ... «Kashmir Life, Mar 15»
10
Sweet Soul Music: Fred Moten's "The Little Edges"
The repeated imperatives here are exhortative but hardly prescriptive or dogmatic; instead, they offer an invitation to join an “erotics of art” (to ... «Hyperallergic, Mar 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Exhortative [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/exhortative>. Apr 2024 ».
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