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# exhortation

«exhortation» in Mova's school dictionary: **a strong, serious request or speech that urges people to…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (an exhortation, exhortations)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (formal) An exhortation is a strong, serious request or speech that urges people to do something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/exhortation/#m1)

2) (church) In some church services, an exhortation is a short talk encouraging the people to live well or to prepare for prayer or communion. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/exhortation/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Found in formal writing, history and religion: a general gives an exhortation to the troops before battle; a preacher gives an exhortation to the congregation. In everyday life, a coach's or parent's «exhortations» are their repeated urgings. Phrases: «an exhortation to», «despite all exhortations».

### examples

- The general's exhortation filled the soldiers with courage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/exhortation/#x1)
- Despite the teacher's exhortations, nobody tidied up. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/exhortation/#x2)
- The preacher ended with an exhortation to love one another. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/exhortation/#x3)
- Posters carried exhortations to save water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/exhortation/#x4)
- The coach shouted exhortations from the side of the pitch. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/exhortation/#x5)
- Paul's letters are full of exhortations to be kind and patient. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/exhortation/#x6)

### note

Formal. Verb: exhort (to urge strongly). Say «eg-zor-TAY-shun»; the h is silent.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «exhortation» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/exhortation/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.