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
With this parting adjuration Mr. Hamlin turned over and tried to devote himself to his book.
From Gabriel Conroy by Harte, Bert
Here there was a fierce adjuration from the Malays in the other boat, which Hilton obeyed to the extent of speaking in a lower tone.
From One Maid's Mischief by Fenn, George Manville
Finally, Lem wound up his appeal with a stern adjuration.
From The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky by MacDonald, Everett
"I would have answered you truly without any adjuration," answered the clergyman.
From The Gipsy (Vols I & II) A Tale by James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford)
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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