hortative
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Hortative, hort′a-tiv, adj. inciting: encouraging: giving advice—also Hort′atory.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
Most of these can as well be spared as those other "moods, Interrogative, Optative, Promissive, Hortative, Precative, &c."
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold
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