an address or communication emphatically urging someone to do something 劝告;规劝 exhortations to consumers to switch off electrical appliances. 规劝消费者关掉电器的话。 [mass noun]no amount of exhortation had any effect. 劝说一点用都没有。
语源
Middle English: from Latin exhortatio(n-), from the verb exhortari 'encourage' (see exhort)