All 4 Uses of
adjure
in
A Tale of Two Cities
- With this hurried adjuration, he cocked his blunderbuss, and stood on the offensive.†
Chpt 1.2
- I adjure you, do not recall that!†
Chpt 2.10
- This touched Young Jerry on a tender place; who adjured his mother to perform her first duty, and, whatever else she did or neglected, above all things to lay especial stress on the discharge of that maternal function so affectingly and delicately indicated by his other parent.†
Chpt 2.14adjured = asked for earnestly or commanded solemnlyeditor's notes: Adjure is seldom used today, but not uncommon in classic literature.
- Next to her preservation of his own last grateful love and blessing, and her overcoming of her sorrow, to devote herself to their dear child, he adjured her, as they would meet in Heaven, to comfort her father.†
Chpt 3.13 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(adjure as in: I adjure you) to appeal earnestly or command solemnly
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(2)
(adjure as in: I adjure all allegiance) to confirm by oath