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
But this time, too, her adjuration failed to awaken an echo.
From The Song of Songs by Sudermann, Hermann
Both set in with an adjuration, a vision.
From ?mile Verhaeren by Zweig, Stefan
"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
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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