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
"Not too many of you," was his final adjuration, as, giving me a look, he slipped out into the hall.
From The Amethyst Box by Green, Anna Katherine
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
An adjuration or exclamation common among the Mohammedans.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah
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
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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