exhort
verb (used with object)
to urge, advise, or caution earnestly; admonish urgently.
had been exhorting
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past perfect progressiveof exhort.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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He had been exhorting us all hot sweltering August and into the fall to move without the ball, to overlap, to let the ball do the work, to one-touch pass.
From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2010
Throughout the Farewell Address Washington had been exhorting Americans to think of themselves as a collective unit with a common destiny.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
The speaker who had been exhorting his audience upon the testimony of prophet and apostle now appealed to his own personal experience.
From The Redemption of David Corson by Goss, Charles Frederic
Mr. Birdsall, with his youngest child in his arms, had been exhorting those of his people near him, but his words had been of little effect in quieting Sissy and Uncle Sheba.
From The Earth Trembled by Roe, Edward Payson
