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

South wind and drouth, I adjure you to make the trees of our fathers perish one and all where they stand, rather than that beneath their shade freedom of conscience shall be judged to death!

From The Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the land of Flanders and elsewhere by Coster, Charles de

Then the Syrian would solemnly adjure him, or threaten him if he were obstinate, and so drive him out.

From The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire by Glover, T. R. (Terrot Reaveley)

“You wouldn’t be homesick at all, Dot, if your imagination had the speed of your hoofs,” he leaned down to adjure his horse, after a habit formed on many a lonelier trail.

From Lonesome Town by Dorrance, Ethel