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

To the friendly adjuration of John of Chlum he replied with tears that he would willingly revoke anything in which he could be proved to have erred.

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

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

I took no notice till he seemed getting in, when I jumped up with an adjuration, saw the floor vacant, and heard human feet running away.

From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)

The rough adjuration restored the young man's nerve, and he looked up, his cheeks wet with tears.

From Laid up in Lavender by Weyman, Stanley J.