vbl. sb. [f. as prec. + -ING1.] The action of the vb. EXHORT; encouragement, instigation; an exhortation, address.
c. 1489. Caxton, Blanchardyn, xx. 65. The proude mayden in amours, after this exhortyng … sayde that she sholde noo more speke therof vnto her. Ibid. (1490), Eneydos, xl. 132. Euander slewe his fader by exhortynge of his moder that vyceta was called.
1591. Harington, Orl. Fur., XXVIII. xcvi. The godly Frier … With new exhortings bad her to beware.
