co-hortative

co·hor·ta·tive

[koh-hawr-tuh-tiv]
adjective
Grammar. (of a verbal mood or form) expressing encouragement or exhortation.

Origin:
1850–55; < Latin cohortāt(us) (past participle of cohortāre to urge; see cohort) + -ive

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Co-hortative is always a great word to know.
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an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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