exhorter
noun
someone who exhorts or encourages another.
exhorters
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pluralof exhorter.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
Number of superannuated preachers 21 " " local preachers and exhorters 7,719 " " elders 42 " " deacons 146 ————— Total number of local preachers 7,928 Members and Probationers.
From History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens by George Washington Williams
Seven lay exhorters were also at the meetings; they were questioned as to their spiritual experience and allotted their several spheres; other matters pertaining to the new conditions created by the revival were arranged.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens" by Various
Moral exhorters have not carefully considered this side of the question in their arguments for house-owning and family-rearing as anchors to the young man.
From The Cost of Shelter by Ellen H. Richards
