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    In front of a small dingy-looking shop with its shutters now closed stood a harassed-looking young policeman who was stolidly adjuring the crowd to "pass along there."  (source)
    adjuring = urging or commanding
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    "—Joseph!" said Mr. Pumblechook, in the way of a compassionate adjuration.  (source)
    adjuration = earnest appeal
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    In spite of his repugnance to address the guards, Dantes turned to the nearest gendarme, and taking his hand,— "Comrade," said he, "I adjure you, as a Christian and a soldier, to tell me where we are going."  (source)
    adjure = ask earnestly
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    I trust we shall......I adjure you to regard the contract once made to harmonize and preserve this Union.†  (source)
    adjure = ask for earnestly or command solemnly
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    Between rock 'n' roll tunes on the radio, the disc jockey constantly adjured motorists to stay off the main highways and under no conditions to go into the mountains, because many roads were impassable and all of them were dangerous.  (source)
    adjured = urged
    editor's notes: Adjure is seldom used today, but not uncommon in classic literature.
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    "Let the cursed and hellish monster drink deep of agony; let him feel the despair that now torments me." I had begun my adjuration with solemnity and an awe which almost assured me that the shades of my murdered friends heard and approved my devotion, but the furies possessed me as I concluded, and rage choked my utterance.  (source)
    adjuration = earnest appeal
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    He looked to be adjuring him to read something writ there but there was nothing to see save the dents and dings occasioned by the ten thousand meals eaten off it.†  (source)
    adjuring = asking for earnestly or commanding solemnly
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    NURSE Do ye hear her words, how loudly she adjures Themis, oft invoked, and Zeus, whom men regard as keeper of their oaths?†  (source)
    adjures = asks for earnestly or commands solemnly
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    These mighty adjurations were as silver and gold plates set in a wall of dross.†  (source)
    adjurations = earnest requests or solemn commands
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    Jean Valjean resumed: "Have no fear, Monsieur Pontmercy, I adjure you.†  (source)
    adjure = ask for earnestly or command solemnly
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    Mammy was greatly perturbed that Ellen's daughter should display such traits and frequently adjured her to "ack lak a lil lady."  (source)
    adjured = urged or commanded
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    He made no reply to this adjuration; only plodding doggedly down the wooden steps, and halting, before an apartment which, from that halt and the superior quality of its furniture, I conjectured to be the best one.  (source)
    adjuration = earnest appeal
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    They alone were deaf to that persistent voice, now grumbling, now patronizing, now domineering, now grieved, now shocked, now angry, now avuncular, that voice which cannot let women alone, but must be at them, like some too-conscientious governess, adjuring them, like Sir Egerton Brydges, to be refined; dragging even into the criticism of poetry criticism of sex; [*1] admonishing them, if they would be good and win, as I suppose, some shiny prize, to keep within certain limits which the gentleman in question thinks suitable—'....female novelists should only aspire to excellence by courageously acknowledging the limitations of their sex'.†  (source)
    adjuring = asking for earnestly or commanding solemnly
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