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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

Chief exhorter against him has been one James Burkitt, a rangy Alabaman and self-styled "Jeffersonian Democrat."

From Time Magazine Archive

Chief exhorter of the Victoria Char lenes, Mme.

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

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

In 1567, just seven years later, the Assembly numbered 252 ministers, 467 readers, and 154 exhorters.

From Sketches of the Covenanters by J. C. McFeeters

Behind him a row of other exhorters sat, a relay ready to leap to his aid.

From Other Main-Travelled Roads by Hamlin Garland

Not exhorters; not conversational monopolists; not lecturers; not the most learned doctor of divinity who is not also a teacher.

From Sunday-School Success A Book of Practical Methods for Sunday-School Teachers and Officers by Amos R. Wells

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