Exhorts vs Extorts - What's the difference?
exhorts | extorts |
(exhort)
To urge; to advise earnestly.
* Bible, Acts ii. 40
* J. D. Forbes
* , Episode 12, The Cyclops
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(extort)
To wrest from an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity; to wrench away (from); to tear away; to wring (from); to exact; as, to extort contributions from the vanquished; to extort confessions of guilt; to extort a promise; to extort payment of a debt.
(legal) To obtain by means of the offense of extortion.
(transitive, and, intransitive, medicine, ophthalmology) To twist outwards.
As verbs the difference between exhorts and extorts
is that exhorts is (exhort) while extorts is (extort).exhorts
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(head)exhort
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(en verb)- With many other words did he testify and exhort .
- Let me exhort you to take care of yourself.
- Asked if he had any message for the living he exhorted all who were still at the wrong side of Maya to acknowledge the true path for it was reported in devanic circles that Mars and Jupiter were out for mischief on the eastern angle where the ram has power.
- Perhaps because he was determined to make up for having walked out on them, perhaps because Harry’s descent into listlessness galvanized his dormant leadership qualities, Ron was the one now encouraging and exhorting the other two into action.