Synonyms for exhort

Grammar : Verb

Spell : ig-zawrt

Phonetic Transcription : ɪgˈzɔrt

Top 10 synonyms for exhort

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Définition of exhort

Origin : c.1400, from Old French exhorer (13c.) and directly from Latin exhortari "to exhort, encourage, stimulate" (see exhortation). Related: Exhorted; exhorting.

verb urge, warn

Example sentences :

The company cheer, and Chaerephon and Callicles exhort them to proceed.
Extract from : « Gorgias » by Plato

And, to the utmost of my power, I exhort all other men to do the same.
Extract from : « Gorgias » by Plato

He then said, "continue to believe as you have done; I encourage and exhort you to do it."
Extract from : « The Autobiography of Madame Guyon » by Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon

Earnestly did she exhort him to repent with Peter, and to be more constant in his profession.
Extract from : « Fox's Book of Martyrs » by John Foxe

Hee told him hee was sent for to exhort him to die patiently and like a Christian.
Extract from : « The Valet's Tragedy and Other Stories » by Andrew Lang

Does he exhort his followers to 'Eat and drink, for to-morrow we die'?
Extract from : « Fragments of science, V. 1-2 » by John Tyndall

Write to me, Monkton—exhort me, admonish me, or forsake me for ever.
Extract from : « Falkland, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Thus did these two exhort them, and endeavor to pacify the rage they were in.
Extract from : « The Antiquities of the Jews » by Flavius Josephus

Do you exhort me then to make a choice among the court beauties?
Extract from : « The Mesmerist's Victim » by Alexandre Dumas

I exhort you not to lose breath, nor to faint in your journey.
Extract from : « Letters of Samuel Rutherford » by Samuel Rutherford

Antonyms for exhort

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