adhort

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English

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Etymology

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From Latin adhortor. See adhortation.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ædˈhɔː(ɹ)t/, /ədˈhɔː(ɹ)t/

Verb

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adhort (third-person singular simple present adhorts, present participle adhorting, simple past and past participle adhorted)

  1. (obsolete) To exhort; to advise.
    • 1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political:
      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.
    • 1676, Nicholas French, The Vnkinde Desertor of Loyall Men and True Friends:
      adhorting all to concurre and joyne with them in rejecting the same peace

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