adjuration

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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

"I would have answered you truly without any adjuration," answered the clergyman.

From The Gipsy (Vols I & II) A Tale by James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford)

To the friendly adjuration of John of Chlum he replied with tears that he would willingly revoke anything in which he could be proved to have erred.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Lea, Henry Charles

Then followed, in order to compel them to act, an adjuration introducing the mystical names, ‘those written at birth in their heart by their father and mother.’

From The Psychological Origin and the Nature of Religion by Leuba, James H. (James Henry)

The adjuration spoke volumes, and for a few moments the old man stood there as if in a catalyptic state.

From The Haute Noblesse A Novel by Fenn, George Manville