Exhort
verb
Trying to influence (someone) by words or advice, to inspire with urge or warnings to do something.
She exhorted her teammates to play harder.
Often appears as...
- exhort someone to
- exhort somebody into
Usage tips
Formal, Approving
verb
To strongly ask or appeal for something to happen.
The general exhorted his troops to fight for their country.
Often appears as...
- exhort to fight
- exhort to action
Usage tips
Formal
verb
To make urgent appeals or demands.
The congregation was exhorted to repent and be saved.
Often appears as...
- exhort to repent
- exhort to pray
Usage tips
Formal
Religious
verb
Trying to influence (someone) by words or advice, to inspire with urge or warnings to do something.
She exhorted her teammates to play harder.
Often appears as...
- exhort someone to
- exhort somebody into
Usage tips
Formal, Approving
verb
To strongly ask or appeal for something to happen.
The general exhorted his troops to fight for their country.
Often appears as...
- exhort to fight
- exhort to action
Usage tips
Formal
verb
To make urgent appeals or demands.
The congregation was exhorted to repent and be saved.
Often appears as...
- exhort to repent
- exhort to pray
Usage tips
Formal
Religious
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/2Motivational Intent
Use 'exhort' to motivate someone to improve or work harder, often in teamwork or group activities.
The coach exhorted the players to give their best until the final whistle.
Pro Tip 2/2Persuasive Tone
'Exhort' implies a level of intensity and earnestness in trying to persuade someone.
Activists exhorted the public to join the movement.
Pro Tip 1/2Motivational Intent
Use 'exhort' to motivate someone to improve or work harder, often in teamwork or group activities.
The coach exhorted the players to give their best until the final whistle.
Pro Tip 2/2Persuasive Tone
'Exhort' implies a level of intensity and earnestness in trying to persuade someone.
Activists exhorted the public to join the movement.
Pro Tip 1/2Motivational Intent
Use 'exhort' to motivate someone to improve or work harder, often in teamwork or group activities.
The coach exhorted the players to give their best until the final whistle.
Pro Tip 2/2Persuasive Tone
'Exhort' implies a level of intensity and earnestness in trying to persuade someone.
Activists exhorted the public to join the movement.
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Bruce Bueno de Mesquita...
to pursue their interests, we have to think about who has influence in the world. If you're trying to influence corporations to change their behavior, with regard to producing pollutants, one approach, the common approach, is to exhort them to be better,
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What lives in ice? PIPE...
I tried to think about what was going through her mind when this picture was taken and all I could think of was this joyful exuberant exuberance urging us exhorting us to do whatever we can to save this amazing part of the planet
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What “Machiavellian”...
or exhort his audience to rule justly and virtuously. Instead, he focused on the question of power– how to acquire it, and how to keep it. And in the decades after it was published, The Prince gained a diabolical reputation.
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Safari Live - Day 333 PIPE...
cool is this now we are exhorted in an area that's a lot more grassy and little more a little less bushy so this is why they're
Video examples
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita...
to pursue their interests, we have to think about who has influence in the world. If you're trying to influence corporations to change their behavior, with regard to producing pollutants, one approach, the common approach, is to exhort them to be better,
Video examples
What lives in ice? PIPE...
I tried to think about what was going through her mind when this picture was taken and all I could think of was this joyful exuberant exuberance urging us exhorting us to do whatever we can to save this amazing part of the planet
Video examples
What “Machiavellian”...
or exhort his audience to rule justly and virtuously. Instead, he focused on the question of power– how to acquire it, and how to keep it. And in the decades after it was published, The Prince gained a diabolical reputation.
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 333 PIPE...
cool is this now we are exhorted in an area that's a lot more grassy and little more a little less bushy so this is why they're
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Quote examples
Adoniram Judson
American Clergyman
When Paul was exhorted to be baptized and to wash away his sins, there was an evident allusion to the use of water in the ordinance of baptism, and had there been no application of water on which to ground such an allusion, we may be certain that we should never have heard of washing away sins in baptism.
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Liberty Hyde Bailey
American Scientist
Extension work is not exhortation. Nor is it exploitation of the people, or advertising of an institution, or publicity work for securing students. It is a plain, earnest, and continuous effort to meet the needs of the people on their own farms and in the localities.
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John Holt
American Educator
No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do not interest him, his attention will slip off to what does interest him, and no amount of exhortation of threats will bring it back.
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Jonathan Mayhew
American Clergyman
For which reason I would exhort you to pay all due Regard to the government over us; to the KING and all in authority; and to lead a quiet and peaceable life.
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Marc Morial
American Politician
We have to remember that Dr. King was not an idle dreamer. Dr. King was a man of action. If Dr. King were here, he would challenge us and exhort us.
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Zora Neale Hurston
American Dramatist
Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
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Plato
Greek Philosopher
I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
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Annie Dillard
American Author
When I teach, I preach. I thump the Bible. I exhort my students morally. I talk to them about the dedicated life.
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Russell Smith
Canadian Novelist
I am so sick of being exhorted, as a writer, to improve the world by representing it in a more hopeful way.
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Pierre Charron
French Philosopher
God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.
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Adoniram Judson
American Clergyman
When Paul was exhorted to be baptized and to wash away his sins, there was an evident allusion to the use of water in the ordinance of baptism, and had there been no application of water on which to ground such an allusion, we may be certain that we should never have heard of washing away sins in baptism.
Quote examples
Liberty Hyde Bailey
American Scientist
Extension work is not exhortation. Nor is it exploitation of the people, or advertising of an institution, or publicity work for securing students. It is a plain, earnest, and continuous effort to meet the needs of the people on their own farms and in the localities.
Quote examples
John Holt
American Educator
No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do not interest him, his attention will slip off to what does interest him, and no amount of exhortation of threats will bring it back.
Quote examples
Jonathan Mayhew
American Clergyman
For which reason I would exhort you to pay all due Regard to the government over us; to the KING and all in authority; and to lead a quiet and peaceable life.
Quote examples
Marc Morial
American Politician
We have to remember that Dr. King was not an idle dreamer. Dr. King was a man of action. If Dr. King were here, he would challenge us and exhort us.
Quote examples
Zora Neale Hurston
American Dramatist
Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
Quote examples
Plato
Greek Philosopher
I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
Quote examples
Annie Dillard
American Author
When I teach, I preach. I thump the Bible. I exhort my students morally. I talk to them about the dedicated life.
Quote examples
Russell Smith
Canadian Novelist
I am so sick of being exhorted, as a writer, to improve the world by representing it in a more hopeful way.
Quote examples
Pierre Charron
French Philosopher
God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.
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