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- noun Plural form of
adjuration .
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Examples
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Some of them are lists of rules about how community members are to behave; others are apparently apocalyptic visions of the future; still others are prayers and wise adjurations.
In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011
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He was not a good driver — and a worse back-seat driver: his adjurations to “keep the revs up” have passed into the family language.
A Different Stripe: 2009
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Some of them are lists of rules about how community members are to behave; others are apparently apocalyptic visions of the future; still others are prayers and wise adjurations.
In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011
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Some of them are lists of rules about how community members are to behave; others are apparently apocalyptic visions of the future; still others are prayers and wise adjurations.
In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011
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He was not a good driver — and a worse back-seat driver: his adjurations to “keep the revs up” have passed into the family language.
Translation 2010
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Some of them are lists of rules about how community members are to behave; others are apparently apocalyptic visions of the future; still others are prayers and wise adjurations.
In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011
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He was not a good driver — and a worse back-seat driver: his adjurations to “keep the revs up” have passed into the family language.
On Douglas Parmée 2009
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Then Affan taught Bulukiya adjurations and conjurations galore and said to him, ‘Repeat these conjurations and cease not repeating until I take the ring.’
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Accordingly, after a vast amount of moaning and crying upstairs, and much damping of foreheads, and vinegaring of temples, and hartshorning of noses, and so forth; and after most pathetic adjurations from
Barnaby Rudge 2007
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Our pontifical writers retain many of these adjurations and forms of exorcisms still in the church; besides those in baptism used, they exorcise meats, and such as are possessed, as they hold, in Christ's name.
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