What is another word for adjures?

Pronunciation: [ɐd͡ʒjˈʊ͡əz] (IPA)

Adjures is a verb that means to earnestly and solemnly request or command someone to do something. There are several synonyms for the word adjures that can be used in place of it depending on the context. The most common synonyms are entreats, beseeches, implores, and pleads with. Entreats suggests an emotional appeal or supplication for help. Beseeches carries the idea of imploring or begging earnestly. Implores denotes a hard, urgent plea for help or assistance. Pleads with is similar to implores by emphasizing the desperate appeal for cooperation. Other synonyms for adjures include charges, demands, and urges, which imply more commanding and forceful requests.

What are the hypernyms for Adjures?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Adjures

Suddenly, however, he remembers that in youth he and Adrian often played together, and, counting upon the young nobleman's deep sense of honour, which he had frequently tested in the past, he passionately adjures him to show himself a true Roman and help him to save his unhappy country.
"Stories of the Wagner Opera"
H. A. Guerber
That He so loves the Son, and so loves us, that He adjures us by all His terrors as well as all His mercies never to turn for refuge for one hour away from the all-perfect Christ.
"Messages from the Epistle to the Hebrews"
Handley C.G. Moule
He adjures him by those Furies which will eternally haunt his Soul upon his impious Refusal: He implores him by the foresight of those dismal Calamities, that horrible Slaughter, those endless Wars, and that unbounded Devastation, which will certainly fall upon Mankind, if the Restoration of Liberty is prevented by his Death, or his incurable Sickness: And lastly, he entreats him by his Thirst of immortal Glory, that Glory in which he now has Rivals, if he has not Equals; but which, if he re-establishes Liberty, will be acknowledg'd by consenting Nations to have neither Equal nor Second.
"Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare"
D. Nichol Smith

Related words: adjure, adjured, adjurer, adjurers, adjuror

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