exhortation vs listening

exhortation

noun
  • Language intended to incite and encourage 

  • The act or practice of exhorting; the act of inciting to laudable deeds; incitement to that which is good or commendable. 

listening

adj
  • Of an action that is performed with caution and attention to sounds. 

  • Of something that is used in order to hear or to improve the ability to hear. 

  • Of something or someone that listens. 

noun
  • Skill or ability of perceiving spoken language. 

  • Action of the verb listening 

  • An educational exercise involving listening 

How often have the words exhortation and listening occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )