adjuration — English Dictionary

Noun

1. A grave warning.

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   The visitor, observing that she held the door on the inside, and that, when the uncle tried to open it, there was a sharp adjuration of 'Don't, stupid!' and an appearance of loose stocking and flannel, concluded that the young lady was in an undress.

2. A solemn oath.

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   The populists were wrong, said Plekhanov, to blame the Marxists on the ground that, as they held socialism to be a product of the evolution of capitalism, they must in Russia be allies of the bourgeoisie: the laws of history could not be bent by adjurations or the purest of revolutionary motives.

Noun

1. a solemn and earnest appeal to someone to do something

   Broader terms

   entreatyprayerappeal