hortation

plural hortations

1. archaiccountableuncountableThe act of exhorting, inciting, or giving advice; exhortation.

   I suppose that never in the history of this nation did we harbour quite so many military experts. From the Service Clubs to the street corner their voice goes up daily in unceasing hortation.

   (Can we date this quote?), “Our Booking-Office”, in Punch, volume 147, number 3820

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   And since, by the will of God, now is a suitable time, so proceed, with the co-operation of divine grace, as to be able to make reparation with increase for what has been neglected. Wherefore strengthen by continual hortation the mind of your glorious husband in love of the Christian faith; let your solicitude infuse into him increase of love for God, and so kindle his heart even for the fullest conversion of the nation subject to him that both he may offer, out of the zeal of your devotion, a great sacrifice to the Almighty Lord, and that the things related of you may both grow and be in all ways proved to be true

   1885, Philip Schaff et al, translating Gregory the Great, letter to Bertha, Queen of the Angli

   Synonyms: exhortation