ADMONITION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does admonition mean? 

• ADMONITION (noun)
  The noun ADMONITION has 2 senses:

1. cautionary advice about something imminent (especially imminent danger or other unpleasantness)

2. a firm rebuke

  Familiarity information: ADMONITION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ADMONITION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cautionary advice about something imminent (especially imminent danger or other unpleasantness)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

admonition; monition; warning; word of advice

Context example:

his final word of advice was not to play with matches

Hypernyms ("admonition" is a kind of...):

advice (a proposal for an appropriate course of action)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "admonition"):

deterrent example; example; lesson; object lesson (punishment intended as a warning to others)

Derivation:

admonish (advise or counsel in terms of someone's behavior)

admonish (warn strongly; put on guard)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A firm rebuke

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

admonishment; admonition; monition

Hypernyms ("admonition" is a kind of...):

rebuke; reprehension; reprimand; reproof; reproval (an act or expression of criticism and censure)

Derivation:

admonish (take to task)

 Context examples 

I promised, as well as I could, that I would not abuse her kindness or forget her admonition.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

She was disheartened by Lady Bertram's silence, awed by Sir Thomas's grave looks, and quite overcome by Mrs. Norris's admonitions.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The clergyman stayed to exchange a few sentences, either of admonition or reproof, with his haughty parishioner; this duty done, he too departed.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Aylward and Johnston had been engaged in throwing light tufts of grass into the air to gauge the wind force, and a hoarse whisper passed down the ranks from the file-leaders to the men, with scraps of advice and admonition.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Mr. Dick. An old and intimate friend. On whose judgement,” said my aunt, with emphasis, as an admonition to Mr. Dick, who was biting his forefinger and looking rather foolish, “I rely.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I heard so much of Twenty Seven, of his pious admonitions to everybody around him, and of the beautiful letters he constantly wrote to his mother (whom he seemed to consider in a very bad way), that I became quite impatient to see him.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)