exhortations
Passionate pleas forward
Exhortations are urgent appeals or earnest encouragements to do something.
A coach's halftime exhortation fires up the team; a preacher's exhortation calls the congregation to righteous action.
The word carries a sense of passionate persuasion: Despite repeated exhortations to vote, turnout remained low.
Exhortations aim to move people toward specific behavior through forceful language rather than command.
Clergy's worship address
- homilyReligious discourse on scripture
- preachingDelivering moral discourse
- gospelSacred choral tradition
- evangelismPromoting beliefs to others
prophetic · pastoral · pulpit · scripture · devotion · ministry · revival · testimony
Formal review request
- entreatyEarnest, urgent request
- supplicationHumble plea for help
- requestFormal act of seeking
- implorationEarnest, urgent appeal
solicitation · beseeching · pleading · prayer · cry · call · petition · invocation
Strong inner drive
Stir to action
- motivateCause to act
- upliftRaise emotionally or physically
- empowerGrant authority or confidence
- heartenTo give courage
bolster · reinforce · rally · rouse · stir · galvanize · energize · invigorate
Oral communication ability
- orationFormal public speech
- addressSpeak to formally
- proclamationFormal public announcement
- declarationFormal public announcement
rallying cry · battle cry · call to arms · manifesto · decree · pronouncement · slogan · watchword
sermon
Clergy's worship address
- homilyReligious discourse on scripture
- preachingDelivering moral discourse
- gospelSacred choral tradition
evangelism · prophetic · pastoral · pulpit · scripture · devotion · ministry · revival · testimony · benediction
appeal
Formal review request
- entreatyEarnest, urgent request
- supplicationHumble plea for help
- requestFormal act of seeking
imploration · solicitation · beseeching · pleading · prayer · cry · call · petition · invocation · adjuration
urge
Strong inner drive
press · prod · goad · spur · prompt · incite · nudge · push · coax · cajole
inspire
Stir to action
hearten · bolster · reinforce · rally · rouse · stir · galvanize · energize · invigorate · animate
speech
Oral communication ability
- orationFormal public speech
- addressSpeak to formally
- proclamationFormal public announcement
declaration · rallying cry · battle cry · call to arms · manifesto · decree · pronouncement · slogan · watchword · clarion call
- oratorypublic speaking, speeches, oration, orations, addresses
- speechesspeech, addresses, historic speeches, lecture, soliloquy
- pleasplea, pleas, please, prayers, entreaty
- evangelismgospel outreach, evangelize, evangelist, born again, evangelizing
- sermonsSunday sermon, homilies, Easter sermon, messages, funeral sermon
- Catholic textsmissal, missals, catechism, catechisms, breviaries
exhortationsdissuasions
Acts of talking out
discouragements · deterrents · admonitions · prohibitions · cautions
exhortationssilence
Total lack of sound
apathy · indifference · reticence · taciturnity · withholding