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exhorter

American  
[ig-zawrt-er] / ɪgˈzɔrt ər /

noun

  • exhorters
    plural
  1. someone who exhorts or encourages another.


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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

Short, bespectacled, he was a rousing, tingling exhorter.

From Time Magazine Archive

He is William Roper, head coach of the Princeton eleven, inciter of great deeds on the gridiron, exhorter of youth in wholesome sport.

From Time Magazine Archive

Chief exhorter of the Victoria Char lenes, Mme.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was an exhorter, all right, and I was caught in the crude, insane eloquence of his plea.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

The Baptist and Methodist religious insurgents believed that ministers and exhorters were chosen through a direct, divine calling that could come to anyone.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 8, 2021

They invited also George Sherwood Eddy, preeminent among the exhorters of Americans and others, who speaks always with clenched fist, contracted brow, tight-drawn lips.

From Time Magazine Archive

John Burrill has other advisers, other exhorters, other spurs that urge him on to his own downfall.

From The Diamond Coterie by Lawrence L. Lynch

These Negro exhorters were encouraged to exercise a measure of spiritual oversight in the midst of their brethren and so help the church and pastor in caring for the flock.

From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922 by Various

In late midsummer and early fall revivalists, preachers, and exhorters go through the Cumberlands holding protracted meetings in the little isolated churches.

From Judith of the Cumberlands by Alice MacGowan

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