enhort

present singular third person enhorts · participle present enhorting · participle past enhorted · past enhorted

1. transitiveTo encourage, to insist upon.

   They enhorted them to make trial of the Gospel since they would find their account in so doing.

   1977, Sebastian Karotemprel, God and Secular Man, A Study of Newman's Approach to the Problem of God and Its Implications for Secular Man, page 79

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   I have nothing more to add at present, but once more to enhort You, not to mind the barkings of Your envious contrymen.

   1795, Johann David Michaelis, Literarischer Briefwechsel - Volume 2, page 334

   which enhorts and commands them to invoke impartially the criminal laws within the bounds of full enforcement.

   1974, Educational and Community Consultants Associates, The Journal of Afro-American Issues, volume 2, page 102

   But they were set apart from the congregation, and Paul is pictured as devoting his last visit not to enhorting the whole church but to caucusing with its leadership.

   1984, American Baptist Quarterly, volume 3, page 136

   His followers are not members of a sect or cult, but people of all walks of life, cultural backgrounds and religions, for Baba enhorts us to seek the underlying unity and divinity in ourselves, in others and in our lives.

   1998, Satya Pal Ruhela, How to Receive Sri Sathya Sai Baba's Grace, page 24

   It is of such great effect and virtue, moreover, Saint John in his Apocalypse enhorts us to buy braised gold in order to be rich.

   2019, Roy Osborne, Renaissance Colour Symbolism, page 23

   Synonyms: exhort