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adhort

/ædˈhɔː(ɹ)t/

adhort verb: to exhort; to advise.

Verb

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

  1. (obsolete) To exhort; to advise.
    • 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
    • adhorting all to concurre and joyne with them in rejecting the same peace1676, Nicholas French, The Vnkinde Desertor of Loyall Men and True Friends

Forms of adhort

third-person singular presentadhorts
present participleadhorting
past participleadhorted
pastadhorted

Origin of adhort

From Latin adhortor. See adhortation.

Words formed from adhort

Questions about adhort

What does adhort mean?
Adhort means to exhort; to advise.
What part of speech is adhort?
Adhort is a verb.
How do you pronounce adhort?
Adhort is pronounced /ædˈhɔː(ɹ)t/.
What is the past tense of adhort?
The past tense of adhort is adhorted.

Words near adhort in the dictionary

  1. adhocratic
  2. adhocratical
  3. adhocratically
  4. adhocrats
  5. Adhola
  6. adhort
  7. adhortation
  8. adhortations
  9. adhortative
  10. adhortatory
  11. adhorted

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