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Word Meanings - ADMONITION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Gentle or friendly reproof; counseling against a fault or error; expression of authoritative advice; friendly caution or warning. Syn. -- Admonition, Reprehension, Reproof. Admonition is prospective, and relates to moral delinquencies; its object

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Gentle or friendly reproof; counseling against a fault or error; expression of authoritative advice; friendly caution or warning. Syn. -- Admonition, Reprehension, Reproof. Admonition is prospective, and relates to moral delinquencies; its object is to prevent further transgression. Reprehension and reproof are retrospective, the former being milder than the latter. A person of any age or station may be liable to reprehension in case of wrong conduct; but reproof is the act of a superior. It is authoritative fault-finding or censure addressed to children or to inferiors.

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  • ADVICE
    Counseling to perform a specific illegal act. Wharton. Advice boat, a vessel employed to carry dispatches or to reconnoiter; a dispatch boat. -- To take advice. To accept advice. To consult with another or others. Syn. -- Counsel; suggestion;
  • MONITION
    A process in the nature of a summons to appear and answer. (more info) to mind; akin to E. mind. See Mind, and cf. Admonish, Money, 1. Instruction or advice given by way of caution; an admonition; a warning; a caution. Sage monitions
  • COUNSEL
    fr. the root of consulere to consult, of uncertain origin. Cf. 1. Interchange of opinions; mutual advising; consultation. All the chief priest and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus, to put him to death. Matt. xxvii. 1. 2. Examination
  • COUNSELOR
    conseiler, F. conseiller, fr. L. consiliarius, fr. consilium 1. One who counsels; an adviser. Can he that speaks with the tongue of an enemy be a good counselor, or no Shak. 2. A member of council; one appointed to advise a sovereign
  • COUNSELORSHIP
    The function and rank or office of a counselor. Bacon.
  • COUNSELABLE
    1. Willing to receive counsel or follow advice. Few men of so great parts were upon all occasions more counselable than he. Clarendon. 2. Suitable to be advised; advisable, wise. He did not believe it counselable. Clarendon.
  • WARNSTORE
    To furnish. "To warnstore your house." Chaucer.
  • RECOMMENDATION
    1. The act of recommending. 2. That which recommends, or commends to favor; anything procuring, or tending to procure, a favorable reception, or to secure acceptance and adoption; as, he brought excellent recommendations. 3. The state of being
  • INSTRUCTION
    1. The act of instructing, teaching, or furnishing with knowledge; information. 2. That which instructs, or with which one is instructed; the intelligence or information imparted; as: Precept; information; teachings. Direction; order; command.
  • WARN
    To refuse. Chaucer.
  • ADMONITION
    Gentle or friendly reproof; counseling against a fault or error; expression of authoritative advice; friendly caution or warning. Syn. -- Admonition, Reprehension, Reproof. Admonition is prospective, and relates to moral delinquencies; its object
  • WARNINGLY
    In a warning manner.
  • WARNING
    Giving previous notice; cautioning; admonishing; as, a warning voice. That warning timepiece never ceased. Longfellow. Warning piece, Warning wheel , a piece or wheel which produces a sound shortly before the clock strikes.
  • WARNER
    One who warns; an admonisher.
  • ADMONITIONER
    Admonisher.
  • INSTRUCTIONAL
    Pertaining to, or promoting, instruction; educational.
  • FOREWARN
    To warn beforehand; to give previous warning, admonition, information, or notice to; to caution in advance. We were forewarned of your coming. Shak.
  • COMMONITION
    Advice; warning; instruction. Bailey.
  • DISCOUNSEL
    To dissuade. Spenser.
  • MISCOUNSEL
    To counsel or advise wrongly.
  • DISWARN
    To dissuade from by previous warning.
  • MISINSTRUCTION
    Wrong or improper instruction.
  • AWARN
    To warn. Spenser.
  • SUBMONITION
    Suggestion; prompting. T. Granger.
  • PREADMONITION
    Previous warning or admonition; forewarning.

 

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