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
She went away a few minutes afterwards, stopping for awhile to exchange greetings with Ann Packet, to whom she gave her address—a back street in Southwark Bridge Road—after much adjuration.
From Mattie:?A Stray (Vol 2 of 3) by Robinson, Frederick William
An adjuration or exclamation common among the Mohammedans.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah
What an accusation could not effect, an adjuration shall.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah
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
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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