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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of enjoin.

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Examples

  • Hence they who require duties which the word enjoins not, have need of other assistances than what the Spirit of grace will afford them; and those who pretend to be led by the

    The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

  • Scoff sceptic if you please, but we rejoice in the assurance that whatever brings God nigh to us will drive our enemies far away; and what brings God so nigh as the exercise of the spirit and the practice of the duties which His word enjoins?

    God in the War. A Sermon Delivered before the Legislature of Georgia, in the Capitol at Milledgeville, on Friday, November 15, 1861, Being a Day Set apart for Fasting, Humiliation and Prayer, by his Excellency the President of the Confederate States 1861

  • And indeed so admirably fitted are they all to the common concerns of a Christian society, that when the rubric enjoins but the use of some of them, our worship is not imperfect; and when we use them all, there is none of them superfluous.

    Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. I. 1634-1716 1823

  • A doer of the word, (poietai,) is not one that doth some single act, now and then, which the word enjoins or directs; but one whose wonted course, and the business of whose life it is to obey the dictates of this word, and who governs his life and the tenour of his actions by it.

    The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. with a Memoir of the Author. Vol. VI. 1630-1705 1822

  • "Policy condition (of LIC) in no uncertain terms enjoins that in case of accident, there must be total and permanent disability so that insured can never sufficiently do or follow to earn or obtain any wages, compensation or profit," the apex consumer body said.

    Daily News & Analysis 2010

  • They will remember that the Constitution enjoins them to promote the common welfare as well as the blessings of liberty.

    The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

  • They will remember that the Constitution enjoins them to promote the common welfare as well as the blessings of liberty.

    The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

  • They will remember that the Constitution enjoins them to promote the common welfare as well as the blessings of liberty.

    The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

  • "To keep the Word of God", as Jesus enjoins, cannot at bottom mean anything other than allowing the Holy Spirit to implant the Son of the Father in the womb of our Souls, and then for us to give birth to this Word into the world in union with Mary, the historical Mother of Jesus and the perennial

    Mary, Mother of God 2009

  • District court Tuesday calls for Orrington to pay $462,500 to the workers involved and enjoins him from further sexual or religious workplace discrimination.

    Dentist settles forced Scientology, harassment case 2009

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