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
What an accusation could not effect, an adjuration shall.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah
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 Jefferies, Richard
But this time, too, her adjuration failed to awaken an echo.
From The Song of Songs by Sudermann, Hermann
Yet at times, rising upon the flood of feeling, he shot out a solemn adjuration or asserted an opinion with a fiery emphasis that electrified the audience into applause.
From From the Easy Chair, series 3 by Curtis, George William
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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