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  • exhorted and threatened  (source)
    exhorted = urged strongly
  • And now gradually the sentences of exhortation shortened, grew sharper, like commands;  (source)
    exhortation = the act of urging strongly
  • 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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  • Sometimes she answered the reporter's question directly, and other times she looked into the television and exhorted people to come and help.†  (source)
    exhorted = urged strongly
  • 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.†  (source)
    exhorting = urging strongly
  • 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.
  • Alternately, and without a hint of irony, she would exhort him to stand up for his rights.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • An exhorter!†  (source)
  • "Can you quiet down, just a little bit!" exhorts a svelte, smartly dressed female school board member from the lectern.†  (source)
    exhorts = urges strongly
  • 12:6 Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith; 12:7 Or ministry, let us wait on our ministering: or he that teacheth, on teaching; 12:8 Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness.†  (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."
  • 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)
  • HICKEY—(exhortingly) Next?†  (source)
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