exhort

Example Sentences

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Exhort the possibility of a “motherhood advantage” to your friends.

From Slate • Jun. 26, 2018

Exhort thou the servants of God unto that whereunto We have exhorted thee that they may abstain from whatsoever is forbidden them in the Mother Book.

From Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh Revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas by Bahá'u'lláh

I grudge not, but myself Exhort thee to it; neither, in this cause, Fear thou the Queen, or in the least regard Whatever menial throughout all the house Of famed Ulysses.

From The Odyssey of Homer by Cowper, William

Exhort them to be worthy of her—to have faith in her present prosperity, in her future greatness, and to devote all their talents, when they themselves are men, to accomplish this noble object.

From Roughing It in the Bush by Moodie, Susanna

Prometheus, I behold: and I would fain Exhort thee, though already subtle enough, To a better wisdom.

From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett