exhorted
Pressed someone earnestly
Exhorted is the past tense of exhort, meaning to urge strongly or earnestly.
To exhort is to press someone toward action through passionate appeal or advice: The coach exhorted his players to give everything they had.
The word suggests fervent encouragement rather than command—a preacher exhorts the congregation, a leader exhorts followers to stay the course.
Strongly encouraged action
- imploredBegged earnestly
- beseechedAsked with desperate urgency
- entreatedPleaded with someone
- adjuredUrgently and solemnly requested
appealed · pleaded · invoked · pressed · encouraged · admonished · enjoined · charged
Delivered religious discourse
- sermonizedDelivered religious discourse
- lecturedSpoke formally to instruct
- oratedGave a formal address
- declaimedSpoke rhetorically aloud
harangued · addressed · proclaimed · declared · pronounced · thundered · rallied · roused
urged
Strongly encouraged action
adjured · appealed · pleaded · invoked · pressed · encouraged · admonished · enjoined · charged · counseled
preached
Delivered religious discourse
- sermonizedDelivered religious discourse
- lecturedSpoke formally to instruct
- oratedGave a formal address
declaimed · harangued · addressed · proclaimed · declared · pronounced · thundered · rallied · roused · stirred
pressured
Urged with insistence
insisted · drove · impelled · constrained · obliged · coerced · forced · browbeat · badgered · hectored
exhortedmurmured
Spoke barely audibly
hinted · mumbled · mentioned · said nothing · understated
exhorteddiscouraged
Having lost confidence or enthusiasm
dissuaded · deterred · cautioned · forbade · prohibited
exhort, exhortation, exhorting, exhorts, exhortations, exhorters