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Across various works, "exhortation" is deployed as a powerful rhetorical device meant to inspire action and moral reflection. In sacred writings, it serves as a call to repentance, virtue, and piety ([1], [2], [3], [4]), while in narrative literature it often emerges as an impassioned appeal urging characters toward decisive change or steadfast commitment ([5], [6], [7]). Classical histories and religious discourses alike utilize exhortation to rally groups, encourage devotion, and even motivate strategic actions in battle ([8], [9]). Whether addressing individuals, communities, or armies, the term conveys an earnest, sometimes formal, bid to guide behavior and reinforce values.
  1. An exhortation to repentance: God's favour through Christ to the penitent.
    — from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete
  2. Wisdom Chapter 1 An exhortation to seek God sincerely, who cannot be deceived, and desireth not our death.
    — from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete
  3. Deuteronomy Chapter 10 God giveth the second tables of the law: a further exhortation to fear and serve the Lord.
    — from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete
  4. Proverbs Chapter 5 An exhortation to fly unlawful lust, and the occasions of it.
    — from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete
  5. He imagined men such as he had himself been a fortnight ago, and he addressed an edifying exhortation to them.
    — from War and Peace by graf Leo Tolstoy
  6. Father Païssy, too, uttered some words of exhortation which moved and surprised him greatly.
    — from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  7. That once conceded, I return to my exhortation.
    — from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
  8. He also gave a particular exhortation to the principal men of the Hebrews, and encouraged the whole army as it stood armed before him.
    — from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus
  9. The exhortation of the generals was brief and forcible: "Paradise is before you, the devil and hell-fire in your rear."
    — from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon

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