exhortation
Strong spoken encouragement
An exhortation is an urgent appeal or encouragement to do something: The coach's halftime exhortation fired up the team.
The word carries a sense of earnest persuasion, often with moral or emotional weight.
Sermons, speeches, and motivational talks are full of exhortations.
To exhort is to deliver such appeals.
Strongly encouraging action
- appealFormal review request
- pleaFormal request or defense
- entreatyEarnest, urgent request
- supplicationHumble plea for help
imploring · beseeching · adjuration · rally · rousing · impassioned · fervent · earnest
Clergy's worship address
- homilyReligious discourse on scripture
- preachingDelivering moral discourse
- pulpitChurch speaking platform
- congregationAssembled group of worshippers
scripture · gospel · doctrine · pastor · minister · clergy · parish · devotion
Support spurring continued effort
- inspirationSource of creative impulse
- call-to-actionUrging audience response
- stirringArousing strong emotion
- galvanizingSpurring into sudden action
rousing · empowerment · uplift · spur · goad · impetus · incitement · provocation
Guidance on decisions
- counselExpert guidance offered
- admonitionMild verbal correction
- warningAlert about danger
- cautionCareful attention to risk
instruction · directive · recommendation · injunction · charge · mandate · bidding · behest
urging
Strongly encouraging action
supplication · imploring · beseeching · adjuration · rally · rousing · impassioned · fervent · earnest · pressing
sermon
Clergy's worship address
- homilyReligious discourse on scripture
- preachingDelivering moral discourse
- pulpitChurch speaking platform
congregation · scripture · gospel · doctrine · pastor · minister · clergy · parish · devotion · piety
encouragement
Support spurring continued effort
- inspirationSource of creative impulse
- call-to-actionUrging audience response
- stirringArousing strong emotion
galvanizing · rousing · empowerment · uplift · spur · goad · impetus · incitement · provocation · instigation
advice
Guidance on decisions
- counselExpert guidance offered
- admonitionMild verbal correction
- warningAlert about danger
caution · instruction · directive · recommendation · injunction · charge · mandate · bidding · behest · dictum
- evangelismgospel outreach, evangelize, evangelist, born again, evangelizing
- oratorypublic speaking, speeches, oration, orations, addresses
- persuasionpersuade, persuasion, persuasive, convince, convincing
- speechesspeech, addresses, historic speeches, lecture, soliloquy
- calls to actioncall to arms, rallying cry, battle cry, war cry, appeal
- promptsprompt, prompts, prompting, cue, hint
exhortationdissuasion
Convincing someone not to
discouragement · deterrence · dissuading · prevention · warning
exhortationsilence
Total lack of sound
indifference · apathy · command · order · demand
exhortationcondemnation
Severe disapproval expressed formally
denunciation · disparagement · demoralizing · deflation · castigation