exhort
verb (used with object)
to urge, advise, or caution earnestly; admonish urgently.
were exhorting
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past progressiveof exhort.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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The Kurds said that they had intercepted communications in which Islamic State commanders were exhorting their fighters to resist to the death.
From New York Times ● Oct. 20, 2016
By now, the Brazilians in the ground were exhorting Tele Santana to introduce Zico, on the bench after injuring his knee earlier in the season, and on 71 minutes, he did.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 22, 2013
Only a few weeks ago at Davos, the financial titans were exhorting one another to stop wittering on about the sins of the past and get back to making money.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 17, 2013
Steel superintendents were exhorting their men to stand by their company unions.
From Time Magazine Archive
He terms himself an ambassador, when he says, “for Christ, therefore, we are ambassadors, God as it were exhorting by us.”
From Church and State as Seen in the Formation of Christendom by Allies, T. W. (Thomas William)
