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Urging   /ˈərdʒɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Urge  v. t.  (past & past part. urged; pres. part. urging)  
1.
To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward. "Through the thick deserts headlong urged his flight."
2.
To press the mind or will of; to ply with motives, arguments, persuasion, or importunity. "My brother never Did urge me in his act; I did inquire it."
3.
To provoke; to exasperate. (R.) "Urge not my father's anger."
4.
To press hard upon; to follow closely "Heir urges heir, like wave impelling wave."
5.
To present in an urgent manner; to press upon attention; to insist upon; as, to urge an argument; to urge the necessity of a case.
6.
To treat with forcible means; to take severe or violent measures with; as, to urge an ore with intense heat.
Synonyms: To animate; incite; impel; instigate; stimulate; encourage.


Urge  v. i.  
1.
To press onward or forward. (R.)
2.
To be pressing in argument; to insist; to persist.





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"Urging" Quotes from Famous Books



... Pascal; and for that purpose he despatched three bishops to Rome, while Anselm sent two messengers of his own to be more fully assured of the pope's intentions [b]. Pascal wrote back letters equally positive and arrogant, both to the king and primate; urging to the former, that, by assuming the right of investitures, he committed a kind of spiritual adultery with the church, who was the spouse of Christ, and who must not admit of such a commerce with any other ...
— The History of England, Volume I • David Hume
... the wounded to their new camp across the plain at Intombi's Spruit. The move was not well organised. From dawn the ambulance people had been at work shifting the hospital tents and all the surgical necessities, but at five in the afternoon a note came back from the officer in camp urging us not to send any more patients. "There is no water, no rations," it said; "not nearly enough tents are pitched. If more wounded come, they will have to spend the night on the open veldt." But the long train was already made up. ...
— Ladysmith - The Diary of a Siege • H. W. Nevinson
... Instantly he sprang to his feet, and the screaming stopped. "Round 'em up, Russ Genesmere! It's getting late!" he yelled, and ran among the cattle, whirling his rope. They dodged weakly this way and that, and next he was on the white horse urging him after the cows, who ran in a circle. One struck the end of a log that stuck out from the fire, splintering the flames and embers, and Genesmere followed on the tottering horse through the sparks, swinging his ...
— Red Men and White • Owen Wister
... of bells and shouting of young captains announced the coming of a great band of the stampeded livestock—cattle, mules and horses mixed. Afar came the voice of Jed Wingate singing, "Oh, then Susannah," and urging Susannah ...
— The Covered Wagon • Emerson Hough
... long experience of the averted gaze of women; but it was not only that; a great shyness beset him. He had risen and removed his hat, trying (ineffectually) not to clear his throat; his every-day sense urging upon him that she was a stranger in Canaan who had lost her way—the preposterousness of any one's losing the way in Canaan not just now appealing ...
— The Conquest of Canaan • Booth Tarkington


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