exhort

Speech parts

1. exhort - Noun

2. exhort - Verb

Meaning

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.

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

Exhortation.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

barrack press inspire urge cheer pep up urge on support pressure require call charge command drive request
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Antonyms

prevent daunt stop block decrease check
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Hypernyms

rede encourage counsel advise

Hyponyms

push advocate rush preach hurry bear on

Related terms

exhortation hortatory hortative exhortatory exhortative dehort

Derivatives

exhorted exhorting

Anagrams

hoxter

Examples

I exhort you, press on in your course, and exhort all men that they may be saved. Polycarp

We call ourselves public servants but I'll tell you this: we as public servants must set an example for the rest of the nation. It is hypocritical for the public official to admonish and exhort the people to uphold the common good. Barbara Jordan

God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself. Pierre Charron

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict. Plato

I exhort you never to debase the moral currency or to lower the standard of rectitude, but to try others by the final maxim that governs your own lives, and to suffer no man and no cause to escape the undying penalty which history has the power to inflict on wrong. John W. Campbell

When I teach, I preach. I thump the Bible. I exhort my students morally. I talk to them about the dedicated life. Annie Dillard

Close letter words and terms

exhilaratory exhilirate exhiliration exhortacion exhortation exhortative