Exhorted
[ɪg'zɔ:tid]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Exhort
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Examples
- 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.
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