exhortatio
Exhortatio is a Latin noun meaning exhortation, urging, or an exhortative speech. It is a feminine noun, declined as exhortatio, exhortationis, and is derived from the verb exhortare (to exhort), itself built from ex- (out, forth) and hortari (to urge or encourage). The English word exhortation derives from this Latin term and carries a closely related sense of urging someone to action or belief.
In classical rhetoric and literature, exhortatio denotes the portion of discourse whose purpose is to move
In Christian Latin writings, exhortatio is commonly used to describe exhortations in sermons, letters, and homilies—addresses
Linguistically, exhortatio illustrates how Latin terms for persuasion are formed and how they gave rise to