adjuration

English

Etymology

From Latin adiuratio.

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

adjuration (countable and uncountable, plural adjurations)

1. A grave warning.
   • 1855 December – 1857 June, Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1857, →OCLC:

     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.
   • 1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozwój (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 332:

     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.

Translations

solemn oath

• Portuguese: adjuração f
• Russian: торжественная клятва (toržestvennaja kljatva)

See also

• adjure

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adiūrātiōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.dʒy.ʁa.sjɔ̃/

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Noun

adjuration f (plural adjurations)

1. adjuration

Further reading

• “adjuration”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012