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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.
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Exhort
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So is fulminate. Does it mean:
| issue or utter verbal attacks or censures |
| high spirits; exhilaration; a boiling over; overflow |
Origin:
1375–1425; late Middle English ex(h)orte < Latin exhortārī to encourage greatly, equivalent to ex- ex-1 + hortārī to urge
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.
1, 2. encourage, spur, press, goad.
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Example Sentences
- The past decade has seen dozens of laws that exhort, encourage and—inevitably—command people to recycle their rubbish.
- We would exhort readers to add their own voices to the site's reviews.
- He thus demonstrated that there are inventive ways to exhort the public, far preferable to surrendering to cliche.
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Word Origin & History
exhort
c.1400, from L. exhortari (see exhortation). Related: Exhorted; exhorting.
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