exhorter


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ex·hort

 (ĭg-zôrt′)
v. ex·hort·ed, ex·hort·ing, ex·horts
v.tr.
To urge by strong, often stirring argument, admonition, advice, or appeal: exhorted the troops to hold the line.
v.intr.
To make an urgent appeal.

[Middle English exhorten, from Latin exhortārī : ex-, intensive pref.; see ex- + hortārī, to encourage; see gher- in Indo-European roots.]

ex·hort′er n.
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A reader of words of wind-demons might have been able to see the portions of a dialogue pass to and fro between the exhorter and his hearers.
He very soon distinguished himself among his brethren, and was soon made a class-leader and exhorter. His activity in revivals was great, and he proved himself an instrument in the hands of the church in converting many souls.
If these words had been spoken by some easy, self-indulgent exhorter, from whose mouth they might have come merely as pious and rhetorical flourish, proper to be used to people in distress, perhaps they might not have had much effect; but coming from one who daily and calmly risked fine and imprisonment for the cause of God and man, they had a weight that could not but be felt, and both the poor, desolate fugitives found calmness and strength breathing into them from it.
Cette rencontre internationale servira aussi d'opportunite, selon les analystes, pour exhorter, les pays cites plus haut, de cessez les ingerences et surtout la violation de l'embargo sur les armes impose depuis 2011 par le Conseil de securite et qui attise la tension en encourageant les affrontements dont les principales victimes sont les civils.
[beaucoup moins que] Je me rejouis d'etre parmi cette honorable assistance, pendant cette rencontre qui est une nouvelle occasion que je saisis, comme toujours, pour perpetuer la pratique du suivi permanent sur le terrain de l'etat des personnels, de les exhorter quant a la parfaite execution du programme de preparation au combat, et de donner les instructions et les orientations y afferentes.
Nous voudrions cependant exhorter le gouvernement a diligenter l'adoption des textes legislatifs et reglementaires portant sur la reforme des soins de sante primaires, et a poursuivre l'elargissement de l'AMO.
He did hold an "exhorter's license" from the Methodist Church, meaning he was a lay preacher who could perform some of the functions of an ordained minister.
In this way, Doug was always more an exhorter than an exemplar, more one who wrote about what economic historians should do rather than one who simply conducted substantive research that put the new approaches on display and thereby demonstrated their power to explain historical events more effectively.
The personality of the exhorter is assigned primary importance in the manuscript--not necessarily his personal merits but his reputation and capacity for well-considered and convincing rhetoric.