Associations to the word «Exhort»

Wiktionary

EXHORT, verb. To urge; to advise earnestly.

Dictionary definition

EXHORT, verb. Spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts; "The crowd cheered the demonstrating strikers".
EXHORT, verb. Force or impel in an indicated direction; "I urged him to finish his studies".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats