enjoinment

Example Sentences

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The enjoinment of self-criticism and self-culture seems a simpler and less circumstantial rule of life.

From Mountain Meditations and some subjects of the day and the war by Lind-af-Hageby, L. (Lizzy)

As Laurent went off, he exchanged a rapid glance with Therese, a glance full of urgent enjoinment.

From Theresa Raquin by Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred

The slanting posture of the one was a sort of fierce rebuke; the sleeping attitude of the other was a dark and sullen enjoinment of silence.

From The Frozen Pirate by Russell, W. Clark (William Clark)

Not one of us dared break the Xosa’s enjoinment to strict silence, and thus we proceeded.

From A Frontier Mystery by Mitford, Bertram

This she set out to him not once, but many and many a time, and the boy, who was quick of wit, punctually obeyed the enjoinment of his discreet nurse.

From The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Payne, John