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Admonishment   /ædmˈɑnɪʃmɛnt/   Listen
Admonishment

noun
1.
A firm rebuke.  Synonyms: admonition, monition.






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"Admonishment" Quotes from Famous Books



... apparently, the graver a sin is, the more incurable it is: wherefore the sins against the Holy Ghost, being most grave, are declared to be unpardonable. Now the sin of incontinence would appear to be more incurable than the sin of intemperance. For a person's sin is cured by admonishment and correction, which seemingly are no good to the incontinent man, since he knows he is doing wrong, and does wrong notwithstanding: whereas it seems to the intemperate man that he is doing well, so that it were good for him to be admonished. Therefore it would appear ...
— Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) • Thomas Aquinas

... shouldst blot us out without a word, Our stricken souls must say we had incurred Just punishment. Warnings we lacked not, warnings oft and clear, But in our arrogance we gave no ear To Thine admonishment. And yet,—and yet! O Lord, we humbly pray,— Put back again Thy righteous Judgment Day! Have patience with us yet a while, until Through these our sufferings ...
— 'All's Well!' • John Oxenham

... at Chita it was officially announced that Semianoff had made his submission to the authority of Koltchak, and had accepted an appointment in the Russian Army. My task therefore changed its character; the proposed admonishment became a congratulation in a very frank and friendly half-hour's interview, the colonel returning the visit to my carriage later. Colonel Semianoff is one of the most striking personalities I have met in Russia; a man of medium height, with square ...
— With the "Die-Hards" in Siberia • John Ward



Words linked to "Admonishment" :   reprimand, rebuke, reproof, admonish, reproval, admonition, reprehension



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