"exhortation" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˌɛɡzɔːˈteɪʃən/, /ˌɛksɔːˈteɪʃən/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-exhortation.wav [US] Forms: exhortations [plural]
Rhymes: -eɪʃən Etymology: From Middle English exhortacioun, from Old French exhortacion, from Latin exhortātiōnem, accusative singular of exhortātiō (“encouraging; exhortation”), from exhortor (“to encourage, exhort”), from ex (“out of, from”) + hortor (“encourage”). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*ǵʰer-|id=yearn}}, {{inh|en|enm|exhortacioun}} Middle English exhortacioun, {{der|en|fro|exhortacion}} Old French exhortacion, {{der|en|la|exhortātiōnem}} Latin exhortātiōnem, {{m|la|exhortātiō||encouraging; exhortation}} exhortātiō (“encouraging; exhortation”), {{m|la|exhortor||to encourage, exhort}} exhortor (“to encourage, exhort”), {{m|la|ex||out of, from}} ex (“out of, from”), {{m|la|hortor||encourage}} hortor (“encourage”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} exhortation (countable and uncountable, plural exhortations)
  1. The act or practice of exhorting. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (Act or practice of exhorting): հորդորանք (hordorankʻ) (Armenian), увещание (uveštanie) [neuter] (Bulgarian), aanmoediging [feminine] (Dutch), admono (Esperanto), exhortation [feminine] (French), παραίνεση (paraínesi) [feminine] (Greek), басалқа (basalqa) (Kazakh), басалқы (basalqy) (Kazakh), exhortātiō [feminine] (Latin), poticanje [neuter] (Serbo-Croatian), podsticanje [neuter] (Serbo-Croatian), pobuđivanje [neuter] (Serbo-Croatian), exhortación (Spanish), erinran [common-gender] (Swedish), uppmaning [common-gender] (Swedish), förmaning [common-gender] (Swedish), tembih (Turkish), uyarı (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-exhortation-en-noun-956MwykX Disambiguation of 'Act or practice of exhorting': 90 10
  2. Language intended to give advice or to urge or encourage. Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms: counsel Translations (Incite and encourage): հորդորանք (hordorankʻ) (Armenian), съвет (sǎvet) [masculine] (Bulgarian), aanmoediging [feminine] (Dutch), exhortātiō [feminine] (Latin), tavsiye (Turkish), teşvik (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-exhortation-en-noun-MFaCGazZ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 7 93 Disambiguation of 'Incite and encourage': 3 97

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.