obtestation
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- noun The act of protesting; a protesting in earnest and solemn words, as by calling God to witness; protestation.
- noun An earnest or pressing request; a supplication; an entreaty.
Examples
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If we should say that this was not simply an oath, but a kind of obtestation, the holy man will be, in some degree, excusable.
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Nor did she farther press him on the subject; for, having concluded her prayer or obtestation, by clasping her hands together with solemnity, and then signing herself with the cross, she again addressed her grandson, in a tone more adapted to the ordinary business of life.
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The veracious historian makes obtestation of the strict truth of his narrative, and imprecates all sorts of evil upon such as do not believe it absolutely.
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His obsequious "Here, sir," his horrid fluency of obtestation, made the murder tenfold more revolting.
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The Englishman was struck with the solemnity of the obtestation, and answered with more cordiality than he had yet exhibited,
Note
The word 'obtestation' comes from a Latin word meaning 'entreaty, invocation'.
