exhortation

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The act or practice of exhorting. countable,uncountable
    — All gladly drew round the table, and Mrs. Palmer's exhortation of “Poor dears, do enjoy yourselves,” was fulfilled, even to her own satisfaction.
  2. Language intended to give advice or to urge or encourage. countable,uncountable
    — Come good Lorenzo, faryewell a while, Ile end my exhortation after dinner.

词形变化

exhortations plural

词汇关系

近义词
hortation
衍生词
apostolic exhortation

词源

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”). By surface analysis, exhort + -ation.
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