exhorter
Americannoun
plural
exhortersExample Sentences
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As night descends on the city, the people rise up, some in anger over Clifton’s murder; some inspired by the protagonist’s oration; some incited by Ras the Exhorter, now the Destroyer, a magnetic Pan-African community leader who opposes the Brotherhood — especially the protagonist, whom he sees as a race traitor — and channels the people’s rage as a weapon; others take to the streets simply to revel in the chaos.
From New York Times
As a leader, he is a doer, not an exhorter.
From The New Yorker
This seemed strange and disturbing—since when had Mississippi conservatives required a foreign exhorter?—but you could detect a broader utility in the alliance.
From The New Yorker
He is an exhorter in a midsummer tent revival: direct, literal, and speaking at a decibel that makes it impossible to misunderstand his intentions.
From The New Yorker
The exhorter is David Perdue, a glutton for punishment who has been campaigning incessantly for 15 months and may be doing so for two more.
From Washington Post
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