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adjure
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synonyms: entreat, enjoin ???
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Definition:to urge somebody to do something
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[he] stepped up to the table and began, with minute attention, to select a sword. He was highly elated, and seemed to feel no doubt that he should issue victorious from the contest. The spectators grew alarmed in the face of so entire a confidence, and adjured Prince Florizel to reconsider his intention.
Robert Louis Stevenson. The Suicide Club
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“if you’ll confess all about it, I won’t whip you this time.” Thus adjured, Topsy confessed to the ribbon and gloves, with woful protestations of penitence.
Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin
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"My dear young friend, rely upon my doing my little all in your absence, by keeping the fact before the mind of Joseph.—Joseph!" said Mr. Pumblechook, in the way of a compassionate adjuration. "Joseph!! Joseph!!!"
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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Will vented those adjuring interjections which imply that admiration is too strong for syntax;
George Eliot. Middlemarch
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