adjuration

Example Sentences

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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

There was no pretence of moderation, and, save in the technical adjuration for mercy, no attempt to evade the responsibility.

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

"God bless you!"—what on earth could Harry mean by that solemn adjuration under such strange and mysterious circumstances?

From The Beckoning Hand and Other Stories by Allen, Grant

Feminine Oaths.—Among the number of feminine expletives may be reckoned Ophelia’s adjuration “by Gis.”

From A Cursory History of Swearing by Sharman, Julian