exhortation
英 [ˌeɡ.zɔːˈteɪ.ʃən]
美 [ˌeɡ.zɔːrˈteɪ.ʃən]
1. ex- "thoroughly" + hort- "encourage, urge" + -ation.
2. => exhort, encourage.
- exhortation (n.)
- late 14c., from Old French exhortacion and directly from Latin exhortationem (nominative exhortatio) "an exhortation, encouragement," noun of action from past participle stem of exhortari "to exhort, encourage," from ex- "thoroughly" (see ex-) + hortari "encourage, urge" (see hortatory). From early 15c. as "speech for the purpose of exhortation."
- 1. After repeated exhortation by his comrades, he finally straightened out his thinking.
- 经过同志们再三劝导, 他终于想通了.
- 2. Miss Bart accepted this exhortation in a spirit of the purest impartiality.
- 巴特小姐心平气和地接受了这种谴责.
- 3. Till I come , give attendance to reading , to exhortation, to doctrine.
- 13你要以宣读, 劝勉,教导为念, 直等到我来.
- 4. Despite Mr Li's exhortation , many Chinese officials are set in their ways.
- 尽管李长春做了督促, 许多中国官员还是我行我素.
- 5. And many other things in exhortation preached he unto the people.
- 18约翰又用许多别的话劝百姓,向他们传福音.