adjure

Example Sentences

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This is because they not only bestow praise; they also adjure the congratulatee to continue the good work�or else.

From Time Magazine Archive

I solemnly adjure you to drop this idea.

From The Red Room by Strindberg, August

And they said, "We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preacheth" to come out of this man.

From "Granny's Chapters" (on scriptural subjects) by Ross, Lady Mary

He went on, with chattering teeth, to adjure me to go no further; but crossing myself, I bade him be silent, and stepped forwards.

From The Honour of Savelli A Romance by Levett-Yeats, S. (Sidney)

To have to discuss, argue, explain, threaten, adjure, only in order to get back to the point from which nobody ought ever to have started, was the silliest of all silly necessities.

From The Pastor's Wife by Arnim, Elizabeth von