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v. To urge by strong, often stirring argument, admonition, advice, or appeal: exhorted the troops to hold the line.

verb-intransitive. To make urgent appeal.

v. To urge; to advise earnestly.

v. 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.

verb-intransitive. To deliver exhortation; to use words or arguments to incite to good deeds.

n. Exhortation.

To incite by words or advice; animate or urge by arguments to some act, or to some course of conduct or action; stir up.

To advise; admonish; caution.

Synonyms To incite, stimulate, encourage; appeal to, beg, enjoin, adjure.

To deliver exhortation; ecclesiastical, to use appeals or arguments to incite; practise public exhortation.

n. The act of exhorting; an exhortation.

v. spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts

v. force or impel in an indicated direction

"He was using the phrase to exhort his compatriots to prepare for war, to engage in the struggle for freedom."

exhortatively    exhortator    exhorted    exhorting    exhorts   

hortatory    hortative   

exhorted    exhorting    exhortation    exhortative   

exhortation    advise    urge    preach    implore   

Court    Dort    Mort    Porte    Stuart    abort    assort    athwart    boart    bort