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adjuratory

adj. containing a solemn charge or command

adjuratory

adj. earnestly or solemnly entreating; "in adjuratory terms"

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pressing, crying, instant, insistent, peremptory, exigent, clamant, urgent

adj. demanding attention; "clamant needs"; "a crying need"; "regarded literary questions as exigent and momentous"- H.L.Mencken; "insistent hunger"; "an instant need"

peremptory, commanding

adj. not allowing contradiction or refusal; "spoke in peremptory tones"; "peremptory commands"

pleading, appealing, imploring, importunate

adj. expressing earnest entreaty; "the appealing and frightened look worn by an injured dog"; "she holds out her hand for money, importunate, insistent"; "a pleading note in her voice"

mendicant

adj. practicing beggary; "mendicant friars"

petitionary

adj. of the nature of or expressing a petition; "the petitionary procedure had a quality of indecisiveness"

precatory, precative

adj. expressing entreaty or supplication; "precatory overtures"

suppliant, supplicant, supplicatory

adj. humbly entreating; "a suppliant sinner seeking forgiveness"

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adjuratory

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