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exhorting

exhorting is the present participle and gerund of exhort.

Meaning of exhort

Verb

exhort (third-person singular simple present exhorts, present participle exhorting, simple past and past participle exhorted)

  1. 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
    Antonyms:
    dehort, dissuade

Noun

exhorting (plural exhortings)

  1. exhortation
    • […] their censorious outcries against the standing ministers and Churches in general, their Lay ordinations, their Lay preachings, and public exhortings, and administering Sacraments […]a. 1758, Jonathan Edwards, An Humble Inquiry into the Rules of the Word of God

Forms of exhorting

pluralexhortings

Questions about exhorting

What does exhorting mean?
Exhorting means exhortation.
What is exhorting the present participle and gerund of?
Exhorting is the present participle and gerund of exhort.
What part of speech is exhorting?
Exhorting is a noun.
What is the plural of exhorting?
The plural of exhorting is exhortings.

Words near exhorting in the dictionary

  1. exhorted
  2. exhorter
  3. exhorters
  4. exhortest
  5. exhorteth
  6. exhorting
  7. exhortingly
  8. exhortings
  9. exhorts
  10. exhost
  11. exhumable

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