hortation means the act of exhorting, inciting, or giving advice; exhortation. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Why “hortation” is a great word
HORTATION — [Noun] The act of inciting or strongly urging toward a specific action. From Latin hortatio, from hortari (“to incite, exhort”), from hori (“to urge”); first attested in English in the 1530s. Unlike “exhortation,” its earnest and common sibling, or “admonition,” which implies a corrective warning, hortation is a rarer, more formal engine of pure incitement. It is the ragged cry of a general before the charge, the insistent finger tapping a flawed parchment, the phantom hand that pushes you onto a stage you fear—a temporary loan of courage for a necessary leap.
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- The act of exhorting, inciting, or giving advice; exhortation.“And since, by the will of God, now is a suitable time, so proceed, with the co-operation of divine grace, as to be able to make reparation with increase for what has been neglected. Wherefore strengthen by continual hortation the mind of your glorious husband in love of the Christian faith; let your solicitude infuse into him increase of love for God, and so kindle his heart even for the fullest c”