Definition of "hortation" []

• The act of exhorting, inciting, or giving advice; exhortation. (noun)

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• "From the Service Clubs to the street corner their voice goes up daily in unceasing hortation."
• "It is an hortation which, by whomsoever delivered, would tend to dispirit the bravest and most honest of witnesses."
• "I caught myself nodding to it -- a nod of sympathy, of hortation to endurance."