enhort
enhort verb: to encourage, to insist upon.
Verb
enhort (third-person singular simple present enhorts, present participle enhorting, simple past and past participle enhorted)
- To encourage, to insist upon.
- 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
- Synonyms:
- exhort
Examples of enhort in a sentence
- 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...
- 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:
- 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 of enhort
Forms of enhort
| third-person singular present | enhorts |
|---|---|
| present participle | enhorting |
| past participle | enhorted |
| past | enhorted |
Origin of enhort
Early uses are a survival of Middle English enhorten, from Old French enorter, from Latin inhortor. The verb fell out of use during the 19th century and was formed anew in the last few decades of the 20th century as a blend of enjoin + exhort or a similar formation.
Words formed from enhort
Questions about enhort
- What does enhort mean?
- Enhort means to encourage, to insist upon.
- How do you use enhort in a sentence?
- They enhorted them to make trial of the Gospel since they would find their account in so doing.
- What part of speech is enhort?
- Enhort is a verb.
- What is the past tense of enhort?
- The past tense of enhort is enhorted.
Words near enhort in the dictionary
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