A Topical Dictionary: Search for exhortation

Dictionary Results For "exhortation" [?]/[OPML]

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English

Etymology

From Latin ex- + hortor, hortari "to encourage."

Pronunciation

Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-eɪʃǝn|-eɪʃǝn

Noun

The act or practice of exhorting; the act of inciting to laudable deeds; incitement to that which is good or commendable.
Language intended to incite and encourage; advice; counsel; admonition.

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Exhortation \Ex`hor*ta"tion\, n. [L. exhortatio: cf. F.
exhortation.]
1. The act of practice of exhorting; the act of inciting to
laudable deeds; incitement to that which is good or
commendable.
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2. Language intended to incite and encourage; advice;
counsel; admonition.
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I'll end my exhortation after dinner. --Shak.
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WordNet exhortation
n 1: a communication intended to urge or persuade the recipients
to take some action
2: the act of exhorting; an earnest attempt at persuasion [syn:
incitement]

Moby Dictionary
address , admonition , advice , advising , advocacy ,
after-dinner speech , allocution , allurement , blandishment ,
briefing , bugle call , cajolement , cajolery , call to arms , call-up ,
catchword , caution , caveat , chalk talk , clarion , clarion call ,
coaxing , conning , conscription , consultation , council , counsel ,
debate , declamation , diatribe , direction , engagement , enlistment ,
eulogy , expostulation , filibuster , forensic , forensic address ,
formal speech , funeral oration , go for broke , guidance , gung ho ,
harangue , hortation , hortatory address , idea , inaugural ,
inaugural address , inducement , instruction , invective , jawboning ,
jeremiad , levy , lobbying , mobilization , monition , muster , opinion ,
oration , parley , pep talk , peroration , persuasion , philippic ,
pitch , preaching , preachment , prepared speech , prepared text ,
proposal , public speech , rally , rallying cry , reading , rebel yell ,
recital , recitation , recommendation , recruitment , remonstrance ,
sales talk , salesmanship , salutatory , salutatory address , say ,
screed , selling , set speech , slogan , snow job , soft soap ,
solicitation , speech , speechification , speeching , suasion ,
suggestion , sweet talk , talk , talkathon , thought , tirade ,
trumpet call , valediction , valedictory , valedictory address ,
war cry , war whoop , warning , watchword , wheedling , working on