enjoining

Everyday

1. Enjoining is ordering or strongly urging someone to do something (formal). tree →
2. (law) Enjoining is a court forbidding someone to do something by an official order. tree →

In the lessons

See «enjoin». It appears in formal reports, law news and religious writing, usually in the present participle: «a sign enjoining visitors to keep off the grass». Phrases: «enjoining someone to», «a court enjoining».

Examples

• The poster was enjoining everyone to wash their hands. tree →
• The preacher spent the sermon enjoining us to forgive. tree →
• A court is enjoining the firm from building on the field. tree →
• Signs enjoining silence hung in the library. tree →
• The headteacher's letter, enjoining parents to read with their children, went home on Friday. tree →
• The judge is considering enjoining the sale. tree →

Note

The -ing form of «enjoin»; keep the single n before -ing. Very formal; in speech say «telling», «urging» or «banning».