enhort
Not valid in Scrabble
It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
- Scrabble points
- 9
- Words With Friends
- 9
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- 6
Definition of enhort
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
verb
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(transitive)To encourage, to insist upon.
“I have nothing more to add at present, but once more to enhort You, not to mind the barkings of Your envious contrymen.”
“which enhorts and commands them to invoke impartially the criminal laws within the bounds of full enforcement.”
“They enhorted them to make trial of the Gospel since they would find their account in so doing.”
“But they were set apart from the congregation, and Paul is pictured as devoting his last visit not to enhorting the whole church but to caucusing with its leadership.”
“His followers are not members of a sect or cult, but people of all walks of life, cultural backgrounds and religions, for Baba enhorts us to seek the underlying unity and divinity in ourselves, in others and in our lives.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Early uses are a survival of Middle English enhorten, from Old French enorter, from Latin inhortor. The verb fell out of use during the 19th century and was formed anew in the last few decades of the 20th century as a blend of enjoin + exhort or a similar formation.
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