Exhortations

Word EXHORTATIONS
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Definitions and meanings of "Exhortations"

What do we mean by exhortations?

The act or practice of exhorting; the act of inciting to laudable deeds; incitement to that which is good or commendable.

Language intended to incite and encourage

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The word "exhortations" in example sentences

"He deals more in exhortations, because those intent on useless questions needed chiefly to be recalled to the study of a holy, moral life; for nothing so effectually allays men's wandering curiosity, as the being brought to recognize those duties in which they ought to exercise themselves" [Calvin]. speak -- without restraint: contrast Tit 1: 11, "mouths ... stopped." doctrine -- "instruction" or "teaching." ❋ Unknown (1871)

It’s that time of year — the High Holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur on the Jewish calendar — when my inbox gets filled with exhortations from the philo-semites of the evangelical world who believe these holidays foretell the time when we Jews will be blinded by the light at Armageddon and become followers of Jesus. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Under such conditions, God and his exhortations are therefore superfluous, and the task before the ethical philosopher is to determine why God (or anyone else) would be constrained to consider particular actions right or wrong. ❋ Unknown (2006)

She might simply never have been there at all, never crooked her fingers in midair when we made love, never called exhortations against my neck, never uttered hoarse cries for the light to be switched on … Finally I couldn't stand it and walked through the drizzle to the pub. ❋ Gash, Jonathan (1981)

The constant topic of his exhortations was the necessity of parish schools. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

However, we made up for it now by an outburst of indignation and resentment, especially violent on my part; whereupon, the sage Allie turned my own moral lecture, so lately delivered, upon myself, recalling my exhortations to the effect that we should be patient and forgiving with one so sorely afflicted as Matty Blair. ❋ Unknown (1875)

If God doth immediately and irresistibly incline or move the wills of the saints to do the things which accompany perseverance, the said exhortations can be no means of effecting this perseverance; for the will, being physically and irresistibly acted and drawn by God to do such and such things, needeth no addition of moral means, such as exhortations are (if they be any), in order hereunto. ❋ 1616-1683 (1966)

Mobilization or exhortations by clergy seem not to be a major factor in explaining good neighborliness. ❋ Robert D. Putnam (2010)

The history, politics, entertainments and culture of this fractured country, so conscious of its own nobility, told through the eyes of these students over a period of a few days - plus the unintentionally hilarious exhortations of Lena the tour guide - were most charming. ❋ Maxine (2009)

And it was scarily easy to tell a story in which an upset citizen had taken the exhortations various political leaders had made in recent years too literally. ❋ Ezra Klein (2011)

There was actor Chazz Palminteri, leading the Madison Square Garden crowd through a series of exhortations. ❋ Unknown (2011)

On my usual travels round the blogosphere tonight, I must have read twenty or thirty exhortations to vote in today's US election. ❋ Maxine (2009)

Their irresponsible propping up of George W. Bush cost them their credibility, and the dysfunctions of teabaggers, birthers and deathers exacerbated by the irresponsible exhortations of Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh are costing them their viability. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Battles continue over women's equality vs. a wife's graceful submission, no-fault divorce vs. attempts to strengthen marital bonds, the ordaining of gays and lesbians and the legalization of "gay marriage" vs. exhortations to "love the sinner but hate the sin," birth control and abortion, private sexual expression vs. public interest.... ❋ Unknown (2011)

Wild “zulu exhortations”? hmmm … the plot thickens. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But it was neither Gorbachev who tore down the Wall nor Reagan's exhortations. ❋ Christopher Holshek (2011)

No breaks for acapella freestyles, no soliloquies, no exhortations for crowd response, just breath control powering a metronome flow that kept time against the staccato syncopations of his massive sounding music. ❋ Rhome Anderson (2011)

As we enter the New Year, expect to be assaulted by relentless advertisements for weight-loss programs, exercise programs promising total physical transformations in only weeks, and exhortations by almost anyone in health professions to become healthier by becoming thinner. ❋ PhD Judith J. Wurtman (2011)

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