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ex·hort
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verb (used with object)
1.
to urge, advise, or caution earnestly; admonish urgently.
verb (used without object)
2.
to give urgent advice, recommendations, or warnings.
Origin:
1375–1425;
late Middle English
ex
(
h
)
orte
<
Latin
exhortārī
to encourage greatly, equivalent to
ex-
ex-
1
+
hortārī
to urge
Related forms
ex·hort·er,
noun
ex·hort·ing·ly,
adverb
un·ex·hort·ed,
adjective
Synonyms
1, 2.
encourage, spur, press, goad.
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exhort
(ɪɡˈzɔːt)
—
vb
to urge or persuade (someone) earnestly; advise strongly
[C14: from Latin
exhortārī,
from
hortārī
to urge]
exhortative
—
adj
ex'hortatory
—
adj
ex'horter
—
n
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
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Word Origin & History
exhort
c.1400, from L. exhortari (see
exhortation
). Related: Exhorted; exhorting.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Example sentences
It is all very well to
exhort
people to take more sleep, but few will do so.
Some trade groups
exhort
members to higher standards.
We would
exhort
readers to add their own voices to the site's reviews.
She called attention to the show by asking the judge to
exhort
the jurors not
to watch it.
In effect, they are further enticing moviegoers to stay home even as they
exhort
and extort them to come to the movies.
The past decade has seen dozens of laws that
exhort
, encourage and—inevitably—command people to recycle their rubbish.
Exhort
them to personal integrity and empower them with truth and honor to carry out the awesome task of government.
The classic response to such worries is simply to
exhort
voters to do better and to care more.
He thus demonstrated that there are inventive ways to
exhort
the public, far preferable to surrendering to cliche.
Books and articles frequently
exhort
developers to build secure software by designing security in.
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"The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good.... God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man,
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him both by word and deed to the study of himself."
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