exhort (exhorts 3rd person present) (exhorting present participle) (exhorted past tense & past participle )If you exhort someone to do something, you try hard to persuade or encourage them to do it.
FORMAL verb
(=urge)
Kennedy exhorted his listeners to turn away from violence... V n to-inf
He exhorted his companions, `Try to accomplish your aim with diligence'. V n with quote
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exhortation (exhortations plural) n-var
Foreign funds alone are clearly not enough, nor are exhortations to reform.