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exhort

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ex⋅hort

  [ig-zawrt]
Use exhort in a Sentence
–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 ME ex(h)orte < L exhortārī to encourage greatly, equiv. to ex- ex- 1 + hortārī to urge

Related forms:
ex⋅hort⋅er, noun
ex⋅hort⋅ing⋅ly, adverb

Synonyms:
1, 2. encourage, spur, press, goad.
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ex·hort   (ĭg-zôrt')   
v.   ex·hort·ed, ex·hort·ing, ex·horts

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

[Middle English exhorten, from Latin exhortārī : ex-, intensive pref.; see ex- + hortārī, to encourage; see gher-2 in Indo-European roots.]
ex·hort'er n.
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