exhort
exhort
Definition
ex·hort (eg zôrt′, ig-)
transitive verb, intransitive verb
to urge earnestly by advice, warning, etc. (to do what is proper or required); admonish strongly
Etymology: ME exhorten < L exhortari, to exhort < ex-, out + hortari, to urge: see hortatory
exhort
Synonyms
exhort
Usage Examples
Object
- brethren: No wonder Peter was exhorting the brethren to offer hospitality without grumbling!
- congregation: I buried a corpse, and exhorted the congregation.
- believer: The Lord exhorts the believers in Ephesus to retrace their steps.
- everyone: Had the whistling wind exhorted everyone to retreat to the safety of their homes, everyone but Nancy and little Steven?
- reader: Now in verses 12 through 16, Paul exhorted the readers to that.
Preposition: with
- longsuffering: Be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
Infinitive complement
- do: I even partook of the sacrament of the Lord's Supper, because exhorted so to do.
- vote: Each car Polly exhorted to vote for Governor Brooke, her mother's demigod, her mother's boyfriend.
- live: We are all exhorted therefore to live according to the Law.
- learn: National parks are also exhorted to learn from the Dartmoor rover ticket.
- follow: The elders do set a pattern for the other believers we are explicitely exhorted to follow the pattern of lived faith of our elders.
- go: We are continually exhorted to go back to the " fathers " for guidance in ecclesiastical matters.
Modifying Another Word
- earnestly: We took leave of each other with many tears; and I earnestly exhorted them to continue in the grace of God.
- constantly: After all, widening access is something that the educational and political establishments constantly exhort us to do.
- strongly: I strongly exhorted the people to put on the whole armor of God.
- therefore: We are all exhorted therefore to live according to the Law.
- all: We are all exhorted therefore to live according to the Law.
Preposition: in
- doctrine: Then in order that they may be able to exhort in sound doctrine and refute those who contradict, positive and negative.
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