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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    " 'So we are always of good courage'!" my father exhorted us.†  (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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    And Hiro thinks, frankly, that most of it is pseudomystical crap, on the same level as his old high school football coach exhorting his men to play at 110 percent.†  (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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