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

Yet at times, rising upon the flood of feeling, he shot out a solemn adjuration or asserted an opinion with a fiery emphasis that electrified the audience into applause.

From From the Easy Chair, series 3 by Curtis, George William

The solemn adjuration was put, the question asked, and Aymer in an audible voice replied, “I will.”

From World's End A Story in Three Books by Jefferies, Richard

What an accusation could not effect, an adjuration shall.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

Then followed, in order to compel them to act, an adjuration introducing the mystical names, ‘those written at birth in their heart by their father and mother.’

From The Psychological Origin and the Nature of Religion by Leuba, James H. (James Henry)