exhortation

exhort | American Dictionary

exhort
verb[ T ]
 fmlus/ɪɡˈzɔrt/
to strongly encourage or persuade someone to do something:
She exhorted all of us to do our very best.

Examples of exhort

exhort
For instance, kindness can be exhorted, but its full meaning can be conveyed over a range of instances only by example.
In addition to encouraging drain trapping, the drainage manuals consistently exhort the householder to adopt a rigorous program of sewer surveillance.
Shopkeepers were exhorted to handle their goods with care and to create a clean environment and an orderly atmosphere.
In particular, he referred to physicians that are exhorted to deal with poverty, population health and housing issues.
He exhorted virtue as the key to the successful pursuit of that life.
However, the tasks offer only a high possibility for using the investigated structures, they cannot really exhort their use.
The narrator marks these feelings with tags that exhort the character to restrain from giving form to feelings, from turning feelings into objects.
Furthermore, they exhorted professionals in the field to actively seek to fulfill more than one of these functions.
Even confessors were exhorted to scrutinize the conscience of the sinner in confession as a physician scrutinizes wounds.
In one case the dancers react to the singers' words, which exhort everyone to run up and hear exciting news.
The goal, then, as recent ecocritics exhort, entails working with and through paradox.
The word given in the second line exhorted the use of the target structure.
These armed groups started exhorting refugees to stay in their camps.
It is one which other ecclesiastical archivists can only be exhorted to follow.
However, he exhorts, one must not balk at the apparent contradiction of this view.
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