adjuration

Example Sentences

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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

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.

There was no pretence of moderation, and, save in the technical adjuration for mercy, no attempt to evade the responsibility.

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

He was too cunning a man—too well versed in human nature—to attempt heroics with such a girl as Rhoda, and there was no enraptured catching of hands, no falling upon one knee, no passionate adjuration.

From The Vicar's People by Fenn, George Manville

Feminine Oaths.—Among the number of feminine expletives may be reckoned Ophelia’s adjuration “by Gis.”

From A Cursory History of Swearing by Sharman, Julian