adjure

Example Sentences

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Despite the song’s topic, the music is joyful, light, as Carlito adjures Maya in Lingala, the language of Kinshasa and its environs:

From The New Yorker

Far from being adjured to address our habit of buying useless consumer goods which have built-in obsolescence, we're positively enjoined to keep calm and carry more shopping if we want the economy to grow.

From BBC

Then another surprise: He adjured the name “Pius XIII” in favor of his father’s, John.

From Newsweek

Lord King, I adjure thee, open the gates, open thy heart.

From Project Gutenberg

She had hoped to band all women together to adjure tyrannic man.

From Project Gutenberg