Definitions for enjoin

enjoin en·join

Spelling: [en-join]
IPA: /ɛnˈdʒɔɪn/

Enjoin is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 42 anagrams from letters in enjoin (eijnno).

Definitions for enjoin

verb (used with object)

  1. to prescribe (a course of action) with authority or emphasis:
  2. to direct or order to do something:
  3. Law. to prohibit or restrain by an injunction.

Origin of enjoin

1175-1225; Middle English enjoi(g)nen Old French enjoindre Latin injungere to fasten to, bring upon. See in-2, join

Examples for enjoin

And dropped it in the glowing mass—no priest did this enjoin.

They also took courage at what was told them, and were ready to perform what he should enjoin them.

In the laws that enjoin the duty of Covenanting they are not excluded.

We stepped out from the shadow and held up our hands to enjoin care.

Her first movement was to enjoin silence, then to gaze about for the goods.

To those laws, enjoin what they may, I am prepared to submit.

All the laws that enjoin the exercise of Covenanting, were delivered to the Church.

And if I followed your precepts, what other preliminaries would you enjoin?

Every man can understand it, but to conceive it and enjoin it was possible only for God.

And yet with what severity do we enjoin children "not to interrupt" us!

Word Value for enjoin
Scrable

13

Words with friends

17

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