What does exhort mean?
Definitions for exhort
ɪgˈzɔrtex·hort
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Princeton's WordNet
cheer, root on, inspire, urge, barrack, urge on, exhort, pep upverb
spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts
"The crowd cheered the demonstrating strikers"
urge, urge on, press, exhortverb
force or impel in an indicated direction
"I urged him to finish his studies"
Wiktionary
exhortverb
To urge; to advise earnestly.
Etymology: From exhortor, from ex- + hortor
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
To EXHORTverb
To incite by words to any good action.
Etymology: exhortor, Latin.
We beseech you, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us, how you ought to walk, so ye would abound. 1 Thes. iv. 1.
My duty is to exhort you to consider the dignity of that holy mystery. Common Prayer.
ChatGPT
exhort
Exhort is a verb that means to strongly urge, advise, or encourage someone to do something. It involves prompting or inspiring someone towards a certain action or behavior, often through persuasion or appeals.
Webster Dictionary
Exhortverb
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
Exhortverb
to deliver exhortation; to use words or arguments to incite to good deeds
Exhortnoun
exhortation
Etymology: [L. exhortari; ex out + hortari to incite, encourage; cf. F. exhorter. See Hortative.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Exhort
egz-hort′, or egz-ōrt′, v.t. to urge strongly to good deeds, esp. by words or advice: to animate: to advise or warn.—n. Exhortā′tion, act of exhorting: language intended to exhort: counsel: a religious discourse.—adjs. Exhort′ative, Exhort′atory, tending to exhort or advise. [L. exhortāri, -ātus—ex, inten., hortāri, to urge.]
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of exhort in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of exhort in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
Examples of exhort in a Sentence
I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly combat.
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, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.
I would also like to exhort doctors to do everything to find vaccines against the mosquitoes that bear this illness. We have to work on that.
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