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exhortation

noun

1 exhortation

A communication intended to urge or persuade the recipients to take some action.

Roget 695: advice, counsel, adhortation; word to the wise; suggestion, submonition, recommendation, advocacy; advisement.    exhortation etc. (persuasion) 615; ... show more

Dutch: aanmaning, maning, sommatie

2 exhortation

The act of exhorting; an earnest attempt at persuasion.

synonym: incitement.

Roget 615: motive, springs of action, wellsprings of action.    reason, ground, call, principle; by end, by purpose; mainspring, primum mobile [Lat.], keystone; the why and the wherefore; ... show more

Dutch: aanmoediging, aansporing, excitatie, stimulatie, stimulering


Moby thesaurus: 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 ... show more.

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