Usage examples (22)

• The difference between prohibitative and exhortative social feedback mechanisms is much more significant than people like to think.
• Nor are these assertions mere neutral constations; they are exhortative performatives that require the passage from sheer enunciation to action.
• Several of the mestizo's friends were supporting him, mainly with their physical presence, although they became vocally exhortative from time to time.
• Just as important, though, is a difference in function between retrospective appraisal and present judgments that have an exhortative function as much as anything else.