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Goad

verb

(past & past part. goaded; pres. part. goading)

Give heart or courage to. Synonym: spur.

Urge with or as if with a goad.

Stab or urge on as if with a pointed stick. Synonym: prick.

Goad or provoke,as by constant criticism. Synonym: needle.

noun

A pointed instrument that is used to prod into a state of motion. Synonym: prod.

A verbalization that encourages you to attempt something. Synonyms: goading, prod, prodding, spur, spurring, urging.

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"Goad" Quotes from Famous Books

... What dost thou? (To one Erinnys.) Rise and let not toil o'ercome thee, Nor, lulled to sleep, lose all thy sense of loss. Let thy soul (to another) feel the pain of just reproach: The wise of heart find that their goad and spur. And thou (to a third) breathe on him with thy blood-flecked breath, And with thy vapour, thy maw's fire, consume him; Chase him, and wither with ...

— Story of Orestes - A Condensation of the Trilogy • Richard G. Moulton

... the image of Wilde lolling like an elegant leviathan on a sofa, and saying between the whiffs of a scented cigarette that martyrdom is martyrdom in some respects, has seized on and mastered all more delicate considerations in the mind. It is unwise in a poet to goad the sleeping lion ...

— The Victorian Age in Literature • G. K. Chesterton

... greatly minded to follow her and see if this were so indeed. But in the end I went back to my boat and laboured amain, for it seemed to me the sooner I was quit of her fellowship the better, lest she goad me into maiming or ...

— Martin Conisby's Vengeance • Jeffery Farnol

... respected or beloved. And as those meet between whom the year has passed in sullen estrangement; upon whose anger many an evening sun has descended; a relenting spirit obeys the mingled voices of Memory and Friendship: the kind resolve is made and followed; so that instead of the thorn to goad and wound, there springs up in the pathway of the Reconciled the olive or the myrtle. How sweet is the sight of human goodness, struggling to surmount the petty passions which discolor its beauty, and bending to the benign suggestions ...

— The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 - Volume 23, Number 1 • Various

... loudest, most piercing shriek could summon. And the storm that howled without would have drowned my voice, even if help had been at hand. To call aloud—to demand who was there—alas! how useless, how perilous! If the intruder were a robber, my outcries would but goad him to fury; but what robber would act thus? As for a trick, that seemed impossible. And yet, WHAT lay by my side, now wholly unseen? I strove to pray aloud as there rushed on my memory a flood of weird legends—the dreaded yet fascinating lore of my childhood. I had heard and read of ...

— Stories by Modern American Authors • Julian Hawthorne

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