Exhortation
[egzɔː'teɪʃ(ə)n] or [,ɛgzɔr'teʃən]
Definition
(noun.) a communication intended to urge or persuade the recipients to take some action.
(noun.) the act of exhorting; an earnest attempt at persuasion.
Edited by Julius--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act of practice of exhorting; the act of inciting to laudable deeds; incitement to that which is good or commendable.
(n.) Language intended to incite and encourage; advice; counsel; admonition.
Editor: Shanna
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Advice, counsel.[2]. Persuasive discourse.
Typist: Loretta
Examples
- From every cage that harboured red men a thunderous shout went up in answer to his exhortation. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Just at the door he said to them a few brief but very earnest words of religious consolation and exhortation. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- They needed no exhortation. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- And he would willingly have had that service of exhortation in prospect now. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- There was little I could add to this general exhortation; for the plague, though in London, was not among us. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I had reckoned on leading her to higher things by means of a little earnest exhortation on the subject of her marriage. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Miss Bart accepted this exhortation in a spirit of the purest impartiality. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- It seems, however, to have been rather a pious exhortation, than a law to which exact obedience was required from the faithful. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- In fact, the exhortation seemed rather a superfluous one to a man with a great pair of iron fetters on his feet. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Various exhortations, or relations of experience, followed, and intermingled with the singing. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The mild exhortations of the old man, and the lively conversation of the loved Felix, were not for me. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
Checked by Gardner