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Word Meanings - ADMONITORY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

That conveys admonition; warning or reproving; as, an admonitory glance. -- Ad*mon"i*to*ri*ly,, adv.

Related words: (words related to ADMONITORY)

  • REPROVE
    1. To convince. When he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment. John xvi. 9. 2. To disprove; to refute. Reprove my allegation, if you can. Shak. 3. To chide to the face as blameworthy; to accuse as guilty;
  • GLANCE
    A name given to some sulphides, mostly dark-colored, which have a brilliant metallic luster, as the sulphide of copper, called copper glance. Glance coal, anthracite; a mineral composed chiefly of carbon. -- Glance cobalt, cobaltite, or gray cobalt.
  • WARNSTORE
    To furnish. "To warnstore your house." Chaucer.
  • REPROVABLE
    Worthy of reproof or censure. Jer. Taylor. Syn. -- Blamable; blameworthy; censurable; reprehensible; culpable; rebukable. --Re*prov"a*ble*ness, n. -- Re*prov"a*bly, adv.
  • REPROVER
    One who, or that which, reproves.
  • ADMONITORY
    That conveys admonition; warning or reproving; as, an admonitory glance. -- Ad*mon"i*to*ri*ly,, adv.
  • 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
  • REPROVAL
    Reproof. Sir P. Sidney.
  • 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.
  • REPROVINGLY
    In a reproving manner.
  • ADMONITIONER
    Admonisher.
  • FOREWARN
    To warn beforehand; to give previous warning, admonition, information, or notice to; to caution in advance. We were forewarned of your coming. Shak.
  • EYEGLANCE
    A glance of eye.
  • IRREPROVABLE
    Incapable of being justly reproved; irreproachable; blameless; upright. -- Ir`re*prov"a*ble*ness, n. -- Ir`re*prov"a*bly, adv.
  • SELF-REPROVINGLY
    In a self-reproving way.
  • SELF-REPROVING
    Reproving one's self; reproving by consciousness of guilt.
  • OVERGLANCE
    To glance over.
  • DISWARN
    To dissuade from by previous warning.
  • SELF-REPROVED
    Reproved by one's own conscience or one's own sense of guilt.
  • UNREPROVED
    1. Not reproved. Sandys. 2. Not having incurred reproof, blameless. In unreproved pleasures free. Milton.
  • AWARN
    To warn. Spenser.
  • PREADMONITION
    Previous warning or admonition; forewarning.

 

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