Word of the Day: exhortation

The word exhortation has appeared in 30 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on June 20 in “One More Chorus of ‘Humm Baby’ for a Baseball Lifer” by Scott Miller:

Craig was 93 when he died this month. He was married to his beloved Carolyn for 71 of those years. And at a memorial on Saturday filled with laughter, tears and the kind of sweet and funny stories that, thankfully, outlive eras, Craig’s legacy gleamed as the central cog of a group of three men who together spanned the past 111 years of Major League Baseball.

… “Can I get a ‘Humm baby!’ from everybody?” Mark Grant, the former Giants pitcher and current Padres television analyst, asked at the beginning of his remarks during the memorial. The congregation at the outdoor ceremony loudly obliged, shouting, “Humm baby,” Craig’s joyful and universal go-to phrase, which served as an exhortation, an exclamation and a descriptor. It was appropriate, and encouraged, for all occasions.

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