What is the meaning of the word 'adjuration'

adjuration - solemn urging


Some sentence examples which use the word 'adjuration'

  • Her adjuration was on a higher plane of sentiment than expression.
  • Pumblechook, in the way of a compassionate adjuration.
  • Before the opposition could remonstrate, the marshal of the diet produced the latest foreign despatches, which unanimously predicted another partition, whereupon, at the solemn adjuration of Ignaty Potocki, King Stanislaus exhorted the deputies to accept the new constitution as the last means of saving their country, and himself set the example by swearing to defend it.
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