Exhort
[ɪg'zɔːt;eg-] or [ɪɡ'zɔrt]
Definition
(v. t.) To incite by words or advice; to animate or urge by arguments, as to a good deed or laudable conduct; to address exhortation to; to urge strongly; hence, to advise, warn, or caution.
(v. i.) To deliver exhortation; to use words or arguments to incite to good deeds.
(n.) Exhortation.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Urge, incite, stimulate, persuade, encourage to do well.
v. n. Give exhortation, offer advice.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Urge, advise, counsel, enjoin, incite, animate
ANT:Deprecate, dissuade, warn, remonstrate
Checker: Witt
Definition
v.t. to urge strongly to good deeds esp. by words or advice: to animate: to advise or warn.—n. Exhortā′tion act of exhorting: language intended to exhort: counsel: a religious discourse.—adjs. Exhort′ative Exhort′atory tending to exhort or advise.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
v.t. In religious affairs to put the conscience of another upon the spit and roast it to a nut-brown discomfort.
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Examples
- Go and suspect and exhort and intervene and denounce and butcher some other place and leave my staff alone. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- A Pestalozzi could try experiments and exhort philanthropically inclined persons having wealth and power to follow his example. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Almost always, of course, the decision is entirely a practical one, which means that each section of people is exhorted to practice the commandment it likes the most. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- For many years, he said, I have exhorted you in vain, with gentleness, preaching, praying, and weeping. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The agitation has a curious sterility: the people are exhorted to control their own government, but they are given very little advice as to what they are to do with it when they control it. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- We exhorted him to be resolute in this, and left my aunt to observe him. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Hereupon Startop took him in hand, though with a much better grace than I had shown, and exhorted him to be a little more agreeable. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Mr. Bucket came out again, exhorting the others to be vigilant, darkened his lantern, and once more took his seat. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Lawrence Grills, exhorting that gentleman to save the brand who honoured the letter from the burning. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- He paced the apartment to and fro, now vainly exhorting the terrified maiden to compose herself, now hesitating concerning his own line of conduct. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
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