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单词 exhortation
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Definition of exhortation in English:

exhortation

noun ɛɡzɔːˈteɪʃ(ə)n
  • An address or communication emphatically urging someone to do something.

    exhortations to consumers to switch off electrical appliances
    mass noun no amount of exhortation had any effect
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Through the closed window in the chambers, the rhythmic exhortations of the protesters could be heard.
    • You can almost hear, watching their avidly gleeful faces, the exhortations of the stage manager to look more joyful.
    • Paradoxically, there is a preacherly tone to his exhortations that, now more than ever, celebrate and justify secularism and non-belief.
    • That story is more interesting than the civic exhortations the daily papers reported, right?
    • Will his rebellion be accompanied by patriotic exhortations - the kind which we associate with the freedom struggle that followed?
    • But repeated exhortations to stop reading in your bedroom, go outside and not be so anti-social do have an impact, particularly when you can see the logic behind them.
    • Each mate is responsible for driving his rowing crew faster; Stubbs manages this with odd, sermon-like exhortations.
    • To you our discourse is addressed, and for you our exhortation is intended.
    • Delivering a series of exhortations, he'll turn a garden party into political group therapy.
    • Concepts of fire and damnation have given way to more sanguine personal exhortations to love, service and devotion.
    • What he needed more than anything, though, was an early goal, to persuade the crowd that their exhortations were worth it.
    • He must ignore the exhortations to comment under those circumstances and if the media tears him apart, he must let them.
    • It ends with an exhortation for better communication from all to help establish interdisciplinary collaboration for the ultimate benefit of patients.
    • Spurred by government exhortations to get fit, reduce congestion and save the environment, commuters are abandoning car for two wheels as never before.
    • Consumers have repeatedly ignored exhortations to buy British and the like in favour of global products.
    • Distant exhortation will have least effect where action is most needed.
    • One does not take away that choice by permitting, encouraging or preventing the exhortation of the citizen to litigate or not to litigate.
    • But these exhortations have changed little at the grass-roots level.
    • Edwards also applies this truth to unbelievers with solemn warnings and exhortations.
    • Each claims to be more cutting edge than the last, and yet each seems to be cut-and-pasted from the exhortations that preceded it.
    Synonyms
    urging, encouragement, persuasion, pressure, pressurization, pushing, insistence
    incitement, goading, egging on
    beseeching
    admonishment, warning
    rare paraenesis
    enjoinder, call, charge, injunction
    entreaty, appeal
    admonition, warning, sermon, lecture, harangue
    rare obtestation, protreptic
 
 

Definition of exhortation in US English:

exhortation

noun
  • An address or communication emphatically urging someone to do something.

    no amount of exhortation had any effect
    exhortations to eat well
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Will his rebellion be accompanied by patriotic exhortations - the kind which we associate with the freedom struggle that followed?
    • It ends with an exhortation for better communication from all to help establish interdisciplinary collaboration for the ultimate benefit of patients.
    • That story is more interesting than the civic exhortations the daily papers reported, right?
    • Edwards also applies this truth to unbelievers with solemn warnings and exhortations.
    • But repeated exhortations to stop reading in your bedroom, go outside and not be so anti-social do have an impact, particularly when you can see the logic behind them.
    • He must ignore the exhortations to comment under those circumstances and if the media tears him apart, he must let them.
    • Each mate is responsible for driving his rowing crew faster; Stubbs manages this with odd, sermon-like exhortations.
    • Paradoxically, there is a preacherly tone to his exhortations that, now more than ever, celebrate and justify secularism and non-belief.
    • Concepts of fire and damnation have given way to more sanguine personal exhortations to love, service and devotion.
    • Distant exhortation will have least effect where action is most needed.
    • Spurred by government exhortations to get fit, reduce congestion and save the environment, commuters are abandoning car for two wheels as never before.
    • Through the closed window in the chambers, the rhythmic exhortations of the protesters could be heard.
    • One does not take away that choice by permitting, encouraging or preventing the exhortation of the citizen to litigate or not to litigate.
    • Each claims to be more cutting edge than the last, and yet each seems to be cut-and-pasted from the exhortations that preceded it.
    • But these exhortations have changed little at the grass-roots level.
    • Delivering a series of exhortations, he'll turn a garden party into political group therapy.
    • You can almost hear, watching their avidly gleeful faces, the exhortations of the stage manager to look more joyful.
    • What he needed more than anything, though, was an early goal, to persuade the crowd that their exhortations were worth it.
    • To you our discourse is addressed, and for you our exhortation is intended.
    • Consumers have repeatedly ignored exhortations to buy British and the like in favour of global products.
    Synonyms
    urging, encouragement, persuasion, pressure, pressurization, pushing, insistence
    enjoinder, call, charge, injunction
 
 
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