Both Uses of
adjure
in
Middlemarch
- Will vented those adjuring interjections which imply that admiration is too strong for syntax; and Naumann said in a tone of piteous regret— "Ah—now—if I could but have had more—but you have other engagements—I could not ask it—or even to come again to-morrow."†
Chpt 2
- Raffles denied this with solemn adjurations; the fact being that the links of consciousness were interrupted in him, and that his minute terror-stricken narrative to Caleb Garth had been delivered under a set of visionary impulses which had dropped back into darkness.†
Chpt 7 *
Definition:
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(adjure as in: I adjure you) to appeal earnestly or command solemnly