Sample Sentences for
adjure
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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)
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    "Once and for all," said the prisoner, "I adjure you to set me free."  (source)
    adjure = appeal earnestly or command solemnly
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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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    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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    I trust we shall......I adjure you to regard the contract once made to harmonize and preserve this Union.†  (source)
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    "—Joseph!" said Mr. Pumblechook, in the way of a compassionate adjuration.  (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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    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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    These mighty adjurations were as silver and gold plates set in a wall of dross.†  (source)
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    Young Pallas, when he saw the chief advance Within due distance of his flying lance, Prepares to charge him first, resolv'd to try If fortune would his want of force supply; And thus to Heav'n and Hercules address'd: "Alcides, once on earth Evander's guest, His son adjures you by those holy rites, That hospitable board, those genial nights; Assist my great attempt to gain this prize, And let proud Turnus view, with dying eyes, His ravish'd spoils."†  (source)
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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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    I adjure you, do not recall that!†  (source)
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    He seems to see them, endless, without order, empty, symbolical, bleak, skypointed not with ecstasy or passion but in adjuration, threat, and doom.†  (source)
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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)
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