adjure
Example Sentences
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This is because they not only bestow praise; they also adjure the congratulatee to continue the good work�or else.
From Time Magazine Archive
If you care not for the happiness of one who would risk his life for yours, then do I adjure you, as you care for truth, to speak the truth!
From The White Gauntlet by Reid, Mayne
I solemnly adjure you to drop this idea.
From The Red Room by Strindberg, August
But whoever you are, whoever finds this paper, I beg of you, I implore you, I adjure you, do not tell a word of it to Dora.
From The Beckoning Hand and Other Stories by Allen, Grant
I adjure you not to believe in that man.
From 'Midst the Wild Carpathians by J?kai, M?r
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