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adjuration

adjuration

9.9
A serious, strong request for someone to do something
  • noun
  • /ˌædʒəˈreɪʃən/
  • Formal
translation icon : adjuración
  • The teacher made an adjuration for the students to study harder before the exams.
  • written adjurations

Examples

  • He rolled his eyes at Jamie in a silent adjuration to keep his wife in better order.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • He handed Peppy over to me with a stern adjuration not to feed her cheese or anything else dangerous to her delicate GI tract and returned to the tube.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • During the meeting, her adjuration for more teamwork resonated with everyone present.

  • He received an adjuration from his mother to take better care of his health.

Synonyms

plea
vsadjuration
195 3.9

A strong request asking people for help or support

is more solemn and less humble in tone when seeking action
appeal
vsadjuration
136 2.9

A serious request for help or action

is more solemn and formal than a general urgent request
urging
vsadjuration
23 3.9

A strong request or feeling that pushes someone to act

is typically more solemn and ceremonial in its appeal to act
exhortation
vsadjuration
  • Formal
10 8.4

Strong words that urge someone to do something

is more solemn and formal when urging someone to act
imploration
vsadjuration
8.5

A strong, urgent request for help

is more solemn and composed rather than being desperate or emotional

Antonyms

discouragement
2 3.8

Making someone less willing to do something by saying you do not like it

How Urgent

to command
307 2.7
adjuration
  • Formal
9.9
exhortation
  • Formal
10 8.4
plea
195 3.9
to request
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

adjuration singular
adjurations plural

Morphology

adjuration = adjure (transparent) = adjure + ation

Formed from the verb 'adjure' with the nominalizing suffix '-ation', meaning 'the act or process of adjuring', which directly matches the given sense.

Etymology

Adjuration comes from the Latin parts ad- 'to' and jurare 'to swear', and it originally meant asking someone in a way that is almost like making them promise. You can see the same root in jury, because jurors take an oath, so an adjuration today is a solemn, urgent request.