| 词组 | abjure, adjure |
| 释义 | abjure, adjure A number of commentators (such as Harper 1985, Shaw 1975, Bremner 1980, the Oxford American Dictionary 1980, Bernstein 1965, Evans 1957) warn that these words are confused with some frequency. Evidence of such confusion is not to be found in the Merriam-Webster files; if it does exist, it is apparently corrected in manuscript. Abjure means "to renounce, reject, avoid"; adjure "to urge or advise earnestly." Besides differing in meaning, the two words take different grammatical constructions. Abjure regularly takes a noun as direct object. The noun often is, but need not be, abstract; it is rarely a personal noun. • Galileo was summoned before the Inquisition at Rome, and there he was made to abjure the Copernican theory —S. F. Mason, Main Currents of Scientific Thought, 1953 • Just one whiff of that vast butchery ... is enough to make a sensitive person abjure meat forever —Ian Fleming, Thrilling Cities, 1963 Adjure, on the other hand, typically takes a personal noun or pronoun followed by to and an infinitive: • The wives and daughters of the Germans rushed about the camp ... adjuring their countrymen to save them from slavery —J. A. Froude, Caesar, 1879 • There is no use adjuring them to take part in it or warning them to keep out of it —Malcolm Cowley, Exile's Return, 1934 Adjure, incidentally, is used quite a bit less frequently than abjure. |
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