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noun

Warning n.

Previous notice. "At a month's warning." "A great journey to take upon so short a warning."

Caution against danger, or against faults or evil practices which incur danger; admonition; monition. "Could warning make the world more just or wise."

verb

Warn v. t. (past & past part. warned; pres. part. warning)

To make ware or aware; to give previous information to; to give notice to; to notify; to admonish; hence, to notify or summon by authority; as, to warn a town meeting; to warn a tenant to quit a house. "Warned of the ensuing fight." "Cornelius the centurion... was warned from God by an holy angel to send for thee." "Who is it that hath warned us to the walls?"

To give notice to, of approaching or probable danger or evil; to caution against anything that may prove injurious. "Juturna warns the Daunian chief of Lausus' danger, urging swift relief."

To ward off. (Obs.)

adjective

Warning adj. Giving previous notice; cautioning; admonishing; as, a warning voice. "That warning timepiece never ceased."

Warning piece, Warning wheel (Horol.), a piece or wheel which produces a sound shortly before the clock strikes.

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Etymology of 'Warning'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Warning" Quotes from Famous Books

... working in the trenches at the drains, and as he looked out he saw Hunter approaching the house. Harlow drew back hastily and returned to his work, and as he went he passed the word to the other men, warning them of ...

— The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists • Robert Tressell

... warning Rance Belmont that the weather was unfit for anyone to be abroad, and the fact that George Sims, the horse trader from Millford, and Dan Lonsbury, had put in for the night, made a splendid argument in favor of his doing the same. Rance Belmont had no desire to face a blizzard unnecessarily, ...

— The Black Creek Stopping-House • Nellie McClung

... mouths of their wives and children. The committee will not pursue this painful subject; but as they clearly see that the system if not arrested, must bring the country to this hazardous extremity, neither prudence nor patriotism would permit them to pass it by without raising a warning voice against an evil of so menacing a character."—Works, ...

— Famous Americans of Recent Times • James Parton

... death; the murderer who brought his head was rewarded. The property of the proscribed was confiscated. Proscription was not the result of any trial but of the caprice of the general, and that too without any warning. Sulla thus massacred not only his enemies but the rich whose property he coveted. It is related that a citizen who was unaccustomed to politics glanced in passing at the list of proscriptions and saw his own name inscribed at the top of ...

— History Of Ancient Civilization • Charles Seignobos

... man to wear the spencer carried something about him besides his Empire Associations; a warning and a lesson was written large over that triple waistcoat. Wherever he went, he exhibited, without fee or charge, one of the many victims of the fatal system of competition which still prevails in France in spite of a century of trial without ...

— Cousin Pons • Honore de Balzac

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