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adhortations

adhortations is the plural of adhortation.

Meaning of adhortation

Noun

adhortation (plural adhortations)

  1. (obsolete, rhetoric) advice; exhortation
    • The use of this figure is great, and often necessarie and needfull to be used, the vertue and power whereof is worthie of high praise and commendation, for when commanding cannot force, nor promises allure, nor commination terrifie, as alone by themselves working in their single strengthes: yet...1577, Henry Peacham, The Garden of Eloquence

Questions about adhortations

What is adhortations the plural of?
Adhortations is the plural of adhortation.

Words near adhortations in the dictionary

  1. adhocratically
  2. adhocrats
  3. Adhola
  4. adhort
  5. adhortation
  6. adhortations
  7. adhortative
  8. adhortatory
  9. adhorted
  10. adhorting
  11. adhorts

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