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

This strikes us now-a-days as anything but a very solemn or a very momentous form of adjuration.

From A Cursory History of Swearing by Sharman, Julian

Just before he reached our company, a student major, in a frenzy of apprehension, came up and gave us one final adjuration not to wiggle.

From Atlantic Classics, Second Series by Addams, Jane

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

This solemn adjuration was answered by as solemn assurances to obey me in whatever I required of them.

From A Wife's Duty A Tale by Opie, Amelia Alderson