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Admonition   /ˌædmənˈɪʃən/   Listen
Admonition

noun
1.
Cautionary advice about something imminent (especially imminent danger or other unpleasantness).  Synonyms: monition, warning, word of advice.  "The warning was to beware of surprises" , "His final word of advice was not to play with matches"
2.
A firm rebuke.  Synonyms: admonishment, monition.






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"Admonition" Quotes from Famous Books



... advice bestowed upon vagrant or criminal by the benevolent judge whose memory she so tenderly cherished. It was second nature to her to act as she fancied he would have acted. Courthope composed himself to receive the judicial admonition with becoming humility; his whole sympathy was with her, his mind was aglow with ...
— A Dozen Ways Of Love • Lily Dougall

... leg of mine. Your Reverence recollects how I ventured up into a dancing saloon, where seafaring men was carrying on with drink and devilry, as the saying goes. And then, when I was for giving them a bit of an admonition to lead ...
— Ghosts • Henrik Ibsen

... said. He was brave, active, and energetic, like his father: but he lacked his father's strategic genius, his prudence, and his fertility in resources. Born in the purple, he was proud and haughty, careless of the feelings of others, and impatient of admonition or remonstrance. His pride made him obstinate in error; and his contempt of others led on naturally to harshness, and perhaps even to cruelty. He is accused of "habitual drunkenness," and was probably not free from the intemperance ...
— The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 5. (of 7): Persia • George Rawlinson

... own experience I can say that I have found no ill-effects from education in Natives; on the contrary, I have found, as a rule, that the Native who has had an ordinary school education is generally more amenable to precept and admonition than the raw kaffir though less bovinely submissive and therefore more resentful of indignities offered to him. The fact that the educated kaffir comes more often in the way of committing theft and dishonesty ...
— The Black Man's Place in South Africa • Peter Nielsen

... advice and censure to have a good effect, I desire your admonition to our vicar and schoolmaster, who in his preaching to his auditors, stretches his jaws so wide, that instead of instructing youth, it rather frightens them: likewise in reading prayers, he has such a careless loll, that people are justly offended at his ...
— The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D. D., Volume IX; • Jonathan Swift


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