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enjoin

To issue an order from a court commanding one to take some action or cease some action. See injunction.

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In that spirit, he gores the sacred cow of vote-selling and -buying, arguing that neither is wrong, so long as it does not lead to the violation of his basic enjoiner to vote well.

Civic virtue without politics: Reflections on Jason Brennan's The Ethics of Voting

Because of the inveterate historicism through which art is often considered--our Hegelian/Marxian habits of thought, along with the never-ending echo of Pound's enjoiner to "make it new"--some may deem her recent work irrelevant.

Sylvia Plimack Mangold: recent works

Unquestionably, the party of Satan - they will be the losers.} [Qur'an 58:19] B- A persistent evil-enjoining soul; Allah The Almighty Says (what means):{Indeed, the soul is a persistent enjoiner of evil.}[Qur'an 12:53] C- Personal inclination; Allah The Almighty Says (what means): {So follow not [personal] inclination, lest you not be just.} [Qur'an 4:135] {But as for he who feared the position of his Lord and prevented the soul from [unlawful] inclination, then indeed, Paradise will be [his] refuge.}[Qur'an 79:40, 41] {...and do not obey one whose heart We have made heedless of Our remembrance and who follows his desire.} [Qur'an 18:28] There many other similar verses.