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US
/ˌɛɡˌzɔɹˈteɪʃən/
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[ UK /ɛɡzɔːtˈeɪʃən/ ]
[ UK /ɛɡzɔːtˈeɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
- a communication intended to urge or persuade the recipients to take some action
- the act of exhorting; an earnest attempt at persuasion
How To Use exhortation In A Sentence
- The record was, I think, called Peace, a heart-warming exhortation for world leaders to avoid war – although many of them, unbelievably, have completely ignored the doughty cloggers' message in the intervening years. Which footballers have produced their own food and drink?
- I have found among my old papers a kind of congratulation and exhortation which I made to myself on dying at an age when I had the courage to meet death with serenity, without having experienced any great evils, either of body or mind. The Confessions of J J Rousseau
- We have become a nation of children, happy to surrender our judgments and our wills to political exhortations and commercial blandishments that would insult actual adults.
- To get this project moving, central government needs to heed his exhortations. Times, Sunday Times
- 3 For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile: 4 Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
- To get this project moving, central government needs to heed his exhortations. Times, Sunday Times
- The conclusion is a pressing exhortation to Catholics to be discerning, and a pledge to undertake a critical dialogue with those affected by New Age influences.
- Will his rebellion be accompanied by patriotic exhortations - the kind which we associate with the freedom struggle that followed?
- Within a fortnight of the President's exhortation to agricultural scientists, farmers dumped cartloads of tomato on the streets.
- But these exhortations have changed little at the grass-roots level.