URGING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does urging mean? 

• URGING (noun)
  The noun URGING has 3 senses:

1. a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something

2. the act of earnestly supporting or encouraging

3. insistent solicitation and entreaty

  Familiarity information: URGING used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• URGING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A verbalization that encourages you to attempt something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

goad; goading; prod; prodding; spur; spurring; urging

Context example:

the ceaseless prodding got on his nerves

Hypernyms ("urging" is a kind of...):

encouragement (the expression of approval and support)

Derivation:

urge (force or impel in an indicated direction)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of earnestly supporting or encouraging

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("urging" is a kind of...):

advocacy; protagonism (active support of an idea or cause etc.; especially the act of pleading or arguing for something)

Derivation:

urge (spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Insistent solicitation and entreaty

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

importunity; urgency; urging

Context example:

his importunity left me no alternative but to agree

Hypernyms ("urging" is a kind of...):

solicitation (an entreaty addressed to someone of superior status)

 Context examples 

I beg your pardon, it is the literal truth: he asked me more than once, and was as stiff about urging his point as ever you could be.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

When it grew dark there seemed to be some excitement amongst the passengers, and they kept speaking to him, one after the other, as though urging him to further speed.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He was urging his son to marry my daughter with as little regard for what she might think as if she were a slut from off the streets.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Their rear ranks were already passing out of sight ere the new-comers were urging their panting, foaming horses up the slope which had been the scene of that long drawn and bloody fight.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Edmund had little to hope, but he was still urging the subject when Henry Crawford entered the room, fresh from the Parsonage, calling out, No want of hands in our theatre, Miss Bertram.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

This was the principle on which Anne wanted her father to be proceeding, his friends to be urging him.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

He was satisfied of there being no present danger in returning home, but no assurances could convince him that it was safe to stay; and while the others were variously urging and recommending, Mr. Knightley and Emma settled it in a few brief sentences: thus—Your father will not be easy; why do not you go?

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

At breakfast she neither ate, nor attempted to eat any thing; and Elinor's attention was then all employed, not in urging her, not in pitying her, nor in appearing to regard her, but in endeavouring to engage Mrs. Jennings's notice entirely to herself.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

If you think, Steerforth, said Mr. Mell, that I am not acquainted with the power you can establish over any mind here—he laid his hand, without considering what he did (as I supposed), upon my head—or that I have not observed you, within a few minutes, urging your juniors on to every sort of outrage against me, you are mistaken.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

In the several debates upon this impeachment, it must be confessed that his majesty gave many marks of his great lenity; often urging the services you had done him, and endeavouring to extenuate your crimes.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)