hortatory

adj

1. Giving exhortation or advice; encouraging.

   “The words were ordinary enough, and to my mind there was in them something so hortatory that I almost smiled.”

   “Some of these books were, on the face of it, frivolous and facetious; but many, on the other hand, were serious and prophetic, moral and hortatory.”

   “Not in a curse but in a hortatory appeal.”

   “Inextricably from its analyses and polemic, above all, The Communist Manifesto is hortatory, ‘a call to arms in the service of the revolution’.”

noun

1. Exhortation or advice; incitement; encouragement.

   “I did not know enough of the Book to understand his hortatory but it seemed to please Miz Ann, who thanked him for his blessings, said she did not require his other services, and that he had paid for his meal with his message.”

2. That which exhorts, incites, or encourages.