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n. An earnest supplication made in the name of God

n. The act of obsecrating or imploring

n. A figure of speech in which the orator implores the assistance of God or man.

n. The act of obsecrating; entreaty; supplication.

n. In liturgics, one of the suffrages or versicles of the Litany beginning with the word by (or, in Latin, per); a petition of the Litany for deliverance from evil: as, “By thy baptism, fasting, and temptation,” the response being “Good Lord, deliver us.”

n. In rhetoric, a figure in which the orator implores the help of God or man.

"But it is sufficient to remark that _obsecration_ is not a swearing by, or adjuring of God, as though to compel Him, for this is forbidden, but to implore His mercy."

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