hortative

adjective /ˈhɔːtətɪv/

1. Urging, exhorting, or encouraging.

   The ministration of these oracles from the pulpit is to be reformed from any of its factitious peculiarities, and made again what it was among the apostles and their immediate successors—earnest, simple, powerful address—hortative talk, if we may so call it.

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

Where it comes from

From Latin hortātīvus, from hortor (“to exhort”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry hortative (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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