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enhorting

enhorting is the present participle of enhort.

Meaning of enhort

Verb

enhort (third-person singular simple present enhorts, present participle enhorting, simple past and past participle enhorted)

  1. (transitive) 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
    Synonyms:
    exhort

Questions about enhorting

What is enhorting the present participle of?
Enhorting is the present participle of enhort.

Words near enhorting in the dictionary

  1. enhoneys
  2. enhorrored
  3. enhorsed
  4. enhort
  5. enhorted
  6. enhorting
  7. enhortment
  8. enhortments
  9. enhorts
  10. enhumble
  11. enhumbled

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