exhort
verb (used with object)
to urge, advise, or caution earnestly; admonish urgently.
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
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Don't fancy, for instance, that I am exhorting you to go slumming.
From August First by Keller, Arthur Ignatius