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
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
“You wouldn’t be homesick at all, Dot, if your imagination had the speed of your hoofs,” he leaned down to adjure his horse, after a habit formed on many a lonelier trail.
From Lonesome Town by Dorrance, Ethel
I solemnly adjure you to drop this idea.
From The Red Room by Strindberg, August
I adjure you, in the name of the friendship you have up to this moment shown me, to explain yourself clearly.
From The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution by Sue, Eug?ne
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