exhortation

exhortation
Synonyms and related words:
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

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  • exhortation — [ ɛgzɔrtasjɔ̃ ] n. f. • 1130; lat. exhortatio 1 ♦ Discours, paroles pour exhorter. ⇒ admonestation, appel, incitation, invite, recommandation. « notre correspondance de guerre, qui ne fut qu une longue et mutuelle exhortation à la patience, au… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • exhortation — Exhortation. s. f. v. Discours par lequel on exhorte. Forte, puissante exhortation. vostre exhortation ne servira de rien. je n ay pas besoin d exhortation pour bien faire. On appelle aussi, Exhortation, Un discours chrestien & pieux qu on fait… …   Dictionnaire de l'Académie française

  • 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. [1913 Webster] 2. Language intended to incite and encourage;… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • exhortation — late 14c., from O.Fr. exhortacion and directly from L. exhortationem (nom. exhortatio) an exhortation, encouragement, noun of action from pp. stem of exhortari, from ex thoroughly (see EX (Cf. ex )) + hortari encourage, urge (see HORTATORY (Cf.… …   Etymology dictionary

  • Exhortation — (lat.), Ermahnung, Ermunterung; Exhortatorĭum, Ermahnungsschreiben; exhortieren, ermahnen …   Kleines Konversations-Lexikon

  • Exhortation — Exhortation, lat. dtsch., Ermahnung; exhortatorium, Ermahnungsschreiben …   Herders Conversations-Lexikon

  • exhortation — index admonition, caution (warning), charge (statement to the jury), direction (guidance), discourse, guidance …   Law dictionary

  • exhortation — [n] warning, urging admonition, advice, beseeching, bidding, caution, counsel, encouragement, enjoinder, entreaty, goading, incitement, instigation, lecture, persuasion, preaching, sermon; concepts 75,78,274 …   New thesaurus

  • exhortation — [eg΄zôr tā′shən, eg΄zərtā′shən; ek΄sôrtā′shən, ek΄sərtā′shən] n. [ME exhortacion < OFr < L exhortatio] 1. the act of exhorting 2. a plea, sermon, etc. that exhorts …   English World dictionary

  • EXHORTATION — s. f. Discours par lequel on exhorte. Sage exhortation. Forte, puissante exhortation. Votre exhortation sera sans effet. Il n a pas besoin d exhortation pour bien faire. Il s efforça de les encourager par ses exhortations.   Il se dit… …   Dictionnaire de l'Academie Francaise, 7eme edition (1835)

  • exhortation — (è gzor ta sion ; en vers, de cinq syllabes) s. f. Discours en vue d exhorter. •   Je reçois de tout mon coeur les exhortations que vous me faites là dessus, d étudier souvent une leçon si utile et si nécessaire, VOIT. Lett. 71. •   Il ne faut… …   Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d'Émile Littré

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