adjuration

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adjuration

Rhymes with -eɪʃən

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From Latin adiuratio.

noun adjurations

  1. countable, uncountable A grave warning. 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. countable, uncountable A solemn oath. 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.

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noun solemn oath

Portuguêsadjuração
Русскийторжественная клятва toržestvennaja kljatva

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@misc{adjuration_2026,
  title = {adjuration},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/adjuration},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}