adjuration
Example Sentences
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With this parting adjuration Mr. Hamlin turned over and tried to devote himself to his book.
From Gabriel Conroy by Bert Harte
And added: "This is but an intimation Of more wicked adjuration," while he pointed to the second entrance, the inscription over which read: "Arbour of Wicked Vows."
From The Song of Songs by Hermann Sudermann
The solemn adjuration was put, the question asked, and Aymer in an audible voice replied, “I will.”
From World's End A Story in Three Books by Richard Jefferies
The rough adjuration restored the young man's nerve, and he looked up, his cheeks wet with tears.
From Laid up in Lavender by Stanley J. Weyman
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 Julian Sharman
Vocabulary lists containing adjuration
Frankenstein
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Wuthering Heights
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Novel Study: Frankenstein, Chapters 14–24
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