Definition of "urgings" []

• Plural form of urging, present participle of urge. (verb)

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• "I don’t know if it was meant to be urgings from the Force but Luke played the “game” like a true master."
• "By degrees, though, the cloud that had been over his understanding seemed to float away, and as they were nearing the harbour he began to recall the urgings he had received to leap from Carn Du, which now stood up black and forbidding on his left; the swim out to the lugger and round; and then -- "Well, how do you feel now, lad?" said the master."
• "In 2005, after urgings from the American Academy of Ophthalmology and other groups, US Lacrosse required that girls and women wear eye protection."