ADJURATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does adjuration mean? 

• ADJURATION (noun)
  The noun ADJURATION has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: ADJURATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ADJURATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A solemn and earnest appeal to someone to do something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("adjuration" is a kind of...):

appeal; entreaty; prayer (earnest or urgent request)

Derivation:

adjure (command solemnly)

adjure (ask for or request earnestly)

 Context examples 

I had begun my adjuration with solemnity and an awe which almost assured me that the shades of my murdered friends heard and approved my devotion, but the furies possessed me as I concluded, and rage choked my utterance.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)