Antonyms for urging
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : urj |
| Phonetic Transcription : ÉœrdÊ’ |
Definition of urging
Origin :- 1610s, from urge (v.); in frequent use after c.1910.
- noun persuading
- Mr Clayton was pushing me forward, and urging a dagger into my hand.
- Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 » by Various
- We have been selfish, sister, in urging our visit at such hazard.
- Extract from : « The Last of the Mohicans » by James Fenimore Cooper
- He seemed to be motioning the crowd away instead of urging them on.
- Extract from : « It Happened in Egypt » by C. N. Williamson
- He caught a glimpse of a man who was urging on the riflemen and who seemed to be their leader.
- Extract from : « The Rock of Chickamauga » by Joseph A. Altsheler
- But I checked him in that Falstaffian vein, urging considerations of time and cookery.
- Extract from : « The Uncommercial Traveller » by Charles Dickens
- A half-savage impulse was urging him to pick a sort of quarrel with her.
- Extract from : « Cleo The Magnificent » by Louis Zangwill
- Then, urging on his horse, he drove at a trot up the hill that led to the Paradou.
- Extract from : « Abbe Mouret's Transgression » by Emile Zola
- The chuckles of this poor man were like cuts from a whip to Therese, lashing and urging her on.
- Extract from : « Therese Raquin » by Emile Zola
- The mention of the bonds did what my urging had failed to do.
- Extract from : « The Rise of Roscoe Paine » by Joseph C. Lincoln
- And what more she would have added I put off by urging her to mount.
- Extract from : « The Shame of Motley » by Raphael Sabatini
Synonyms for urging
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