Both Uses of
enjoin
in
Frankenstein - 1831 version
- I feared the vengeance of the disappointed fiend, yet I was unable to overcome my repugnance to the task which was enjoined me.
p. 155.1 *enjoined = urged or commanded upon
- At such moments vengeance, that burned within me, died in my heart, and I pursued my path towards the destruction of the daemon more as a task enjoined by heaven, as the mechanical impulse of some power of which I was unconscious, than as the ardent desire of my soul.
p. 208.4enjoined = urged or commanded
Definitions:
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(1)
(enjoin as in: enjoined us to act) to urge or command someone to do something
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(2)
(enjoin as in: enjoined us from acting) to prohibit someone from doing something