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Definition
summon into action or bring into existence — often as if by magic
- For some time I was lost in conjecture as to the cause of this, but yesterday an idea struck me, and if it is well founded, I conjure you to avow it.Chapter 18 (12% in)
- Interpret my words with candour and answer me, I conjure you, with confidence and sincerity.Chapter 18 (25% in)
- I walked up and down my room hastily and perturbed, while my imagination conjured up a thousand images to torment and sting me.Chapter 20 (39% in)
- Answer me, I conjure you by our mutual happiness, with simple truth—Do you not love another?Chapter 22 (31% in)
- But until then, I conjure you, do not mention or allude to it.Chapter 22 (55% in)
- After passing several hours, we returned hopeless, most of my companions believing it to have been a form conjured up by my fancy.Chapter 23 (34% in)
There are no more uses of "conjure" in Frankenstein.
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