exhort

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From Latin exhortor (encourage), from ex- + hortor (incite, spur)

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Infinitive
to exhort

Third person singular
exhorts

Simple past
exhorted

Past participle
exhorted

Present participle
exhorting

to exhort (third-person singular simple present exhorts, present participle exhorting, simple past and past participle exhorted)

  1. To urge; to advise earnestly.
    • 2007, J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
      Perhaps because he was determined to make up for having walked out on them, perhaps because Harry’s descent into listlessness galvanized his dormant leadership qualities, Ron was the one now encouraging and exhorting the other two into action.

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