urging

Noun

Meaning

of Urge

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Examples

So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself. Florence Nightingale

A society which is clamoring for choice, which is filled with many articulate groups, each urging its own brand of salvation, its own variety of economic philosophy, will give each new generation no peace until all have chosen or gone under, unable t. Margaret Mead

Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit. Novalis

John the Baptist, who we are told was related by blood to Jesus, was preaching the impending judgement of God, urging repentance and moral reform, and baptizing in the Jordan River those who responded. Kenneth Scott Latourette

In the same way, there is some creature gnawing away inside of me, urging me to do things in different ways. Dylan Moran

That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest. François de La Rochefoucauld

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