Sample Sentences for
exhort
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    exhorted and threatened  (source)
    exhorted = urged strongly
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    And now gradually the sentences of exhortation shortened, grew sharper, like commands;  (source)
    exhortation = the act of urging strongly
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    They continued to walk onward, while the elder traveller exhorted his companion to make good speed and...  (source)
    exhorted = urged strongly
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    In the Sin-On Bible, John 5:14 exhorted the believers not to "sin no more," but to "sin on more!"†  (source)
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    she called to Enkidu with this exhortation:  (source)
    exhortation = address (that strongly urges Enkidu to do something)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    He stands in the pulpit now, a minister exhorting his flock.†  (source)
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    The sound track on the disk, previously consisting of the usual banal pants, gasps, exhortations, and instructions one would expect from such activity, suddenly filled the holopit with screams-first the young man's, then Sira's.†  (source)
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    An exhorter!†  (source)
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    Alternately, and without a hint of irony, she would exhort him to stand up for his rights.†  (source)
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    In seven canonical words, she exhorts, cajoles, commands someone—herself?†  (source)
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    For the words "Doe this," are the words not onely of him that Commandeth; but also of him that giveth Counsell; and of him that Exhorteth; and yet there are but few, that see not, that these are very different things; or that cannot distinguish between them, when they perceive who it is that speaketh, and to whom the Speech is directed, and upon what occasion.†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She exorteth" in older English, today we say "She exorts."
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    I see the place of the idea of the Deity incarnated by avatars in human forms, I see the spots of the successions of priests on the earth, oracles, sacrificers, brahmins, sabians, llamas, monks, muftis, exhorters, I see where druids walk'd the groves of Mona, I see the mistletoe and vervain, I see the temples of the deaths of the bodies of Gods, I see the old signifiers.†  (source)
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    HICKEY—(exhortingly) Next?†  (source)
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