adjuration
Americannoun
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an earnest request; entreaty.
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a solemn or desperate urging or counseling.
an adjuration for all citizens of the beleaguered city to take shelter.
Etymology
Origin of adjuration
1605–15; < Latin adjūrātiōn- (stem of adjūrātiō ), equivalent to adjūrāt ( us ), past participle of adjūrāre to adjure + -ion- -ion
Example Sentences
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New York's volcanic little Mayor Fiorello Henry LaGuardia is paternally proud of his neat fleet of silver streamlined, street-cleaning trucks, which bear the adjuration: Our City�Yours and Mine�Keep It Clean.
From Time Magazine Archive
Just before he reached our company, a student major, in a frenzy of apprehension, came up and gave us one final adjuration not to wiggle.
From Atlantic Classics, Second Series by Addams, Jane
Finally, Lem wound up his appeal with a stern adjuration.
From The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky by MacDonald, Everett
The solemn adjuration is made in the name of the Church by her ministers and in the ritual form prescribed by her, as in the exorcisms of Baptism.
From Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities by Callan, Charles Jerome
This strikes us now-a-days as anything but a very solemn or a very momentous form of adjuration.
From A Cursory History of Swearing by Sharman, Julian
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