Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of exhorting, or giving advice and encouragement; exhortation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare The act of exhorting, inciting, or giving advice; exhortation.
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- noun The act of
exhorting ,inciting , or givingadvice ;exhortation .
Etymologies
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Examples
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From the Service Clubs to the street corner their voice goes up daily in unceasing hortation.
Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, September 23, 1914 Various
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Now and again, it seemed to be thought that the lovers were insufficiently fervid -- were but dallying with passion; and then there were stentorian grunts of disapproval and hortation.
Yet Again Max Beerbohm 1914
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It is an hortation which, by whomsoever delivered, would tend to dispirit the bravest and most honest of witnesses.
Yet Again Max Beerbohm 1914
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I caught myself nodding to it -- a nod of sympathy, of hortation to endurance.
Yet Again Max Beerbohm 1914
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Here surely is "the atmosphere of praise" of Mr. Pinero's hortation.
Without Prejudice Israel Zangwill 1895
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The conception of the metempsychosis is strikingly fitted for the purposes of humor, satire, and ethical hortation; and literature abounds with such applications of it.
The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life William Rounseville Alger 1863
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[(Dean then g) 9 (a) 3 (ve a just account of all he knew of the affair, and ended with a short ex) -11 (hortation for)] TJ
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His discourse began with ex - hortation, and concluded with a public confession of his own sins, and so terrided himself in telling the tale of innocence. se - duced, and credulity deceived, that he I5S THE LIBERAL CRITIC; OR, burst into tears before he could proceed.
The liberal critic; or, Memoirs of Henry Percy. Conveying a correct estimate of the manners and principles of the present times .. Ashe, Thomas, 1770-1835 1812
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The firft difcourfe, preached on the doctor's ad million as rainifter of St. Andrew's, is a caution againft a foninefs for novelty, and an ex - hortation tp be fatlsfied with being put in remembrance of things already known, and 'eftablifhed in the prefent truth.'
The Analytical Review, Or History of Literature, Domestic and Foreign, on an Enlarged Plan 1796
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[(just brushed away) 29 (a tear from off his veteran cheek, which the last ex) -11 (hortation of that)] TJ
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