Literary notes about Exhort (AI summary)
Throughout literature, "exhort" is employed as a forceful call to action, urging individuals toward virtuous behavior, repentance, or decisive initiative. Authors use the term to issue earnest commands—from encouraging academic or moral advancement, as seen in a call to seek higher education ([1]), to prompting immediate reflection and reform in both ethical and martial contexts ([2], [3]). In religious and historical writings, it serves as an appeal for inner transformation and steadfast adherence to faith, as noted in appeals to "exhort your hearts" and to remain steadfast against sin ([4], [5], [6]). Whether addressing personal conduct or collective political and spiritual well‐being, the word "exhort" consistently functions as an imperative to act with purpose and conviction ([7], [8], [9]).
- would exhort him to seek a college education and become the first scholar in his class.
— from Twice-told tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne - “By all means, be as wise as Nestor and as prudent as Ulysses; I do more than permit, I exhort you.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet - For when orators exhort the people to make war upon or to form alliances against any one, this species of oratory is called exhortation.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius - Exhort your hearts and confirm you in every good work and word.
— from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete - But exhort one another every day, whilst it is called to day, that none of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
— from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete - And now I exhort you to be of good cheer.
— from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete - The brothers, hearing these words, began diligently to exhort him, that he should repent even then, whilst he was still in the flesh.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Saint the Venerable Bede - But Josue the son of Nun, thy minister, he shall go in for thee: exhort and encourage him, and he shall divide the land by lot to Israel.
— from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete - It behooves you, therefore, to exhort her to repentance, and to confession, as a proof and consequence thereof.”
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
