adjuration

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

An adjuration or exclamation common among the Mohammedans.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah

The rough adjuration restored the young man's nerve, and he looked up, his cheeks wet with tears.

From Laid up in Lavender by Weyman, Stanley J.

"Hush, child, for Heaven's sake!" cried Fabian in alarm; but Gretchen paid no heed to his adjuration; she went on quite undisturbed.

From Under a Charm, Vol. III. (of III) A Novel by Werner, E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers)

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