adhort

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/ædˈhɔː(ɹ)t//ədˈhɔː(ɹ)t/

verb

To exhort; to advise.

OriginLatin adhortor →
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Meanings

verbadhort (third-person singular simple present adhorts, present participle adhorting, simple past and past participle adhorted)

present singular third person adhorts · participle present adhorting · participle past adhorted · past adhorted

  1. obsoleteTo exhort; to advise.

    adhorting all to concurre and joyne with them in rejecting the same peace

    1676, Nicholas French, The Vnkinde Desertor of Loyall Men and True Friends
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    That eight-times Martyr'd Mother in the Maccabees when she would adhort her Son to a passive Fortitude against the exacuated Tortures of Antiochus, she desires him to look upon the Heavems, the Earth, and all in them contained.

    1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political

Origin

  1. Latinadhortor
  2. Englishadhort

From Latin adhortor. See adhortation.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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APA

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MLA

“adhort.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/adhort. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “adhort,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/adhort.

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