exhort
Syllables: ex·hortUK/ɛɡˈzɔːt//ɛɡˈzɔɹt/
exhort verb: to urge; to advise earnestly.
Verb
exhort (third-person singular simple present exhorts, present participle exhorting, simple past and past participle exhorted)
- To urge; to advise earnestly.
- And with many other words did hee testifie and exhort, saying, Saue your selues from this vntoward generation.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 2:40
- And now, my dear sir, let me exhort you to take care of yourself.1873, John Campbell Shairp, Peter Guthrie Tait, Anthony Adams-Reilly, quoting James David Forbes, Letter to Anthony Adams-Reilly, Esq., c. 1860, quoted in Life and Letters of James David Forbes...
exhort meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada
exhort in Tamil
- உற்சாகமளி, ஊக்குவி, ஆர்வத்தைத் தூண்டு, வற்புறுத்து, அறிவுரை கூறு, பரிந்துரை
exhort in Bengali
- জোরালোভাবে উৎসাহিত করা, উপদেশ দেওয়া
exhort in Malayalam
- ശക്തിയായി പ്രേരിപ്പിക്കുക, ഉപദേശിക്കുക, പ്രചോദിപ്പിക്കുക, അനുശാസിക്കുക
exhort in Kannada
- ಆಸಕ್ತಿಯಿಂದ ಬುದ್ಧಿಹೇಳು, ಪ್ರೋತ್ಸಾಹಿಸು, ಪ್ರೇರಿಸು, ಒತ್ತಾಯಿಸು, ಹುರಿದುಂಬಿಸು, ಅಂಗಲಾಚು
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- exhort in Thai
- คะยั้นคะยอ
Examples of exhort in a sentence
- Reverend, that gangly drink of water can surely exhort almost as good as you.
- Peeble shoved and exhorted and two end seats emerged upon which Enid and Malone perched themselves.
- Collectivity was treated as an end in itself: We were here, as ruangrupa exhorted us, to “Make friends, not art!”
Synonyms of exhort
Antonyms
Forms of exhort
| third-person singular present | exhorts |
|---|---|
| present participle | exhorting |
| past participle | exhorted |
| past | exhorted |
| second-person singular present (archaic) | exhortest |
| second-person singular past (archaic) | exhortedst |
| third-person singular present (archaic) | exhorteth |
Origin of exhort
From Middle English exorten, from Old French exhorter, from Latin exhortārī (“to encourage”), from ex- (“out of, from”) + hortārī (“to incite, spur”).
Words formed from exhort
Words that rhyme with exhort
44 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- export
- mort
- assort
- escort
- fort
- quart
- resort
- retort
- thwart
- wart
- cavort
- comport
- detort
- distort
- extort
- swart
- transport
- apport
- come short
- consort
- contort
- desport
- ort
- purport
- reimport
- tort
- accourt
- aport
- asnort
- asport
- bort
- coreport
- Crown Court
- dort
- Isle aux Morts
- kangaroo court
- misreport
- reexport
- rereport
- rort
- skort
- spoilsport
- torte
- worrywart
Questions about exhort
- What does exhort mean?
- Exhort means to urge; to advise earnestly.
- What is exhort in Tamil?
- Exhort in Tamil is உற்சாகமளி, ஊக்குவி, ஆர்வத்தைத் தூண்டு. See Exhort meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is exhort?
- Exhort is a verb.
- How do you pronounce exhort?
- Exhort is pronounced /ɛɡˈzɔːt/ (UK).
- What is the past tense of exhort?
- The past tense of exhort is exhorted.
Words near exhort in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: exhort (page history and authors); exhort (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); exhort (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); exhort (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); exhort (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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