Definitions for enjoins

enjoins en·join

Spelling: [en-join]
IPA: /ɛnˈdʒɔɪn/

Enjoins is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 94 anagrams from letters in enjoins (eijnnos).

Definitions for enjoins

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 enjoins

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

Examples for enjoins

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for enjoins
Scrable

13

Words with friends

17

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