exhortation

Examples of exhorted

exhorted

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

For instance, kindness can be exhorted, but its full meaning can be conveyed over a range of instances only by example.
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.
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.
The word given in the second line exhorted the use of the target structure.
It is one which other ecclesiastical archivists can only be exhorted to follow.
He called for support not only from the clerical, but also from the secular magistrates, when he exhorted that witches not be allowed to live.
We are strenuously exhorted to define the research question in 'greater detail' (p. 159) and, above all, to replicate studies in order to verify results.
Kiyoi recently exhorted them to do in these pages.
Readers are finally exhorted to move to a moral economy of long-term care in order to maximise the possibility of a decent life for people throughout their lives.
Clergy exhorted their fellows to examine their flocks before communion and reject the unworthy.
The government built creches and canteens, extended its range of maternity institutions and exhorted the nation to greater efforts for the sake of socialist society, its wealth and its welfare.
But something about the 'tone', as he put it afterwards (not a phonologist), moved him to respond as if the voice had exhorted him to do something against his will.
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