Exhortation

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: ex=hor=ta=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

Exhortation, n. [L. exhortatio: cf. F. exhortation.].

•  The act of practice of exhorting; the act of inciting to laudable deeds; incitement to that which is good or commendable.  [1913 Webster]
•  Language intended to incite and encourage; advice; counsel; admonition.  [1913 Webster]

  "I'll end my exhortation after dinner."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Exhortation, n.
1 the act or an instance of exhorting; the state of being exhorted.
2 a formal or liturgical address.

Etymology

ME f. OF exhortation or L exhortatio (as EXHORT)

THESAURUS

Exhortation

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

ROGET THESAURUS

Exhortation

Motive

N motive, springs of action, wellsprings of action, reason, ground, call, principle, by end, by purpose, mainspring, primum mobile, keystone, the why and the wherefore, pro and con, reason why, secret motive, arriere pensee, intention, inducement, consideration, attraction, loadstone, magnet, magnetism, magnetic force, allectation, allective, temptation, enticement, agacerie, allurement, witchery, bewitchment, bewitchery, charm, spell, fascination, blandishment, cajolery, seduction, seducement, honeyed words, voice of the tempter, song of the Sirens forbidden fruit, golden apple, persuasibility, persuasibleness, attractability, impressibility, susceptibility, softness, persuasiveness, attractiveness, tantalization, influence, prompting, dictate, instance, impulse, impulsion, incitement, incitation, press, instigation, provocation, inspiration, persuasion, suasion, encouragement, advocacy, exhortation, advice, solicitation, lobbyism, pull, incentive, stimulus, spur, fillip, whip, goad, ankus, rowel, provocative, whet, dram, bribe, lure, decoy, decoy duck, bait, trail of a red herring, bribery and corruption, sop, sop for Cerberus, prompter, tempter, seducer, seductor, instigator, firebrand, incendiary, Siren, Circe, agent provocateur, lobbyist, impulsive, motive, suasive, suasory, persuasive, persuasory, hortative, hortatory, protreptical, inviting, tempting suasive, suasory, seductive, attractive, fascinating, provocative, induced, disposed, persuadable, spellbound, instinct with, smitten with, infatuated, inspired, by, because, therefore, from this motive, from that motive, for this reason, for that reason, for, by reason of, for the sake of, count of, out of, from, as, forasmuch as, for all the world, on principle, fax mentis incendium gloriae, temptation hath a music for all ears, to beguile many and be beguiled by one.

Advice

N advice, counsel, adhortation, word to the wise, suggestion, submonition, recommendation, advocacy, advisement, exhortation, expostulation, admonition, guidance, instruction, charge, injunction, obtestation, Governor's message, President's message, King's message, Queen's speech, message, speech from the throne, adviser, prompter, counsel, counselor, monitor, mentor, Nestor, magnus Apollo, senator, teacher, guide, manual, chart, physician, doctor, leech, archiater, arbiter, reference, referment, consultation, conference, pourparler, recommendatory, hortative, dehortatory, admonitory, Int, go to!, give every man thine ear but few thy voice, I pray thee cease thy counsel, my guide, philosopher, and friend, 'twas good advice and meant, my son be good, verbum sat sapienti, a word to the wise is sufficient, vive memor leti, we, ask advice but we mean approbation.