exhorting
Pressing someone onward
Exhorting is urging or encouraging someone strongly, often with passionate appeal: The coach stood exhorting his players from the sideline.
The word carries a sense of earnest persuasion—you exhort someone to action, to virtue, to greater effort.
It appears frequently in religious and political contexts where speakers call audiences to moral or civic duty.
Strongly encouraging action
- encouragingGiving confidence or hope
- imploringUrgently requesting with emotion
- beseechingUrgently pleading for something
- entreatingUrgently asking for favor
adjuring · pleading · appealing · coaxing · pressing · pushing · prodding · prompting
Prompting someone to act
- rallyingAssembling for unified action
- rousingExciting strong feeling
- stirringArousing strong emotion
- galvanizingSpurring into sudden action
energizing · uplifting · empowering · emboldening · heartening · animating · invigorating · firing up
Exerting strong authority
- directingOverseeing a production
- instructingConveying how to proceed
- chargingRestoring electrical power
- biddingOffering prices or obeying
ordering · enjoining · compelling · pressuring · insisting · requiring · mandating · dictating
urging
Strongly encouraging action
- encouragingGiving confidence or hope
- imploringUrgently requesting with emotion
- beseechingUrgently pleading for something
entreating · adjuring · pleading · appealing · coaxing · pressing · pushing · prodding · prompting · goading
motivating
Prompting someone to act
galvanizing · energizing · uplifting · empowering · emboldening · heartening · animating · invigorating · firing up · cheering
commanding
Exerting strong authority
- directingOverseeing a production
- instructingConveying how to proceed
- chargingRestoring electrical power
bidding · ordering · enjoining · compelling · pressuring · insisting · requiring · mandating · dictating · decreeing
- persuadingpersuading, convincing, urging, coaxing, influencing
- preachingsermonizing, homiletics, altar call, scripture reading, closing prayer
- teachingteaching, lesson plans, instructing, educating, courses
- advocacypetition, advocating, protest sign, championing, picket sign
- contactingcalling, phoning, texting, emailing, messaging
- pleadingpleading, begging, beseeching, imploring, entreating
exhortingdiscouraging
Causing loss of confidence
dissuading · deterring · disheartening · dampening · demoralizing
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