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adhorting

adhorting is the present participle and gerund of adhort.

Meaning of adhort

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

Questions about adhorting

What is adhorting the present participle and gerund of?
Adhorting is the present participle and gerund of adhort.

Words near adhorting in the dictionary

  1. adhortation
  2. adhortations
  3. adhortative
  4. adhortatory
  5. adhorted
  6. adhorting
  7. adhorts
  8. ADHS
  9. adhumulone
  10. Adhya
  11. adhyasa

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