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adj. - Giving strong encouragement.

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  • Delivered in Obama's exhortatory cadences, the words are uplifting.
  • Various exhortatory banners hung from the rails at the front of the upper decks.
  • “Ought not” and the “wisdom of the government” sound more exhortatory than mandatory.
  • Translating King's exhortatory metaphor into granite might seem hackneyed, and so might the idea of having his figure emerge from the granite.
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