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adjuration

[ aj-uh-rey-shuh n ]

/ ˌædʒ əˈreɪ ʃən /

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noun

an earnest request; entreaty.

a solemn or desperate urging or counseling: an adjuration for all citizens of the beleaguered city to take shelter.

Origin of adjuration

1605–15; < Latin adjūrātiōn- (stem of adjūrātiō), equivalent to adjūrāt(us), past participle of adjūrāre to adjure + -ion- -ion

Words nearby adjuration

adjugate, adjunct, adjunct professor, adjunction, adjunctive, adjuration, adjure, adjust, adjustability, adjustable, adjustable spanner

Example sentences from the Web for adjuration

The table then walked into the passage, and I repeated the adjuration, receiving the same answer.

The Other World; or, Glimpses of the Supernatural (Vol. II of II) |Various
Suddenly she recollected her adjuration to the girls to gain their mothers' consent before going on with their plan.

Marjorie Dean |Pauline Lester
All the fervency of this adjuration failed to convince the deputies of their duty, as conceived by the orator.

Charles the Bold |Ruth Putnam
And then an adjuration to her whom He gave to be our Mother.

Lourdes |Robert Hugh Benson

Then the driver changed the relationship, with an access of tenderness in voice and in adjuration.

Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. XVII, No. 99, March, 1876 |Various