admonition

4 definitions found

admonition - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Admonition \Ad`mo*ni"tion\, n. [OE. amonicioun, OF. amonition,
     F. admonition, fr. L. admonitio, fr. admonere. See
     Admonish.]
     Gentle or friendly reproof; counseling against a fault or
     error; expression of authoritative advice; friendly caution
     or warning.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     Syn: Admonition, Reprehension, Reproof.
  
     Usage: 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.
            [1913 Webster]

admonition - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  admonition
      n 1: cautionary advice about something imminent (especially
           imminent danger or other unpleasantness); "a letter of
           admonition about the dangers of immorality"; "the warning
           was to beware of surprises"; "his final word of advice was
           not to play with matches" [syn: admonition, monition,
           warning, word of advice]
      2: a firm rebuke [syn: admonition, admonishment, monition]

admonition - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  ADMONITION. A reprimand from a judge to a person accused, on being
  discharged, warning him of the consequences of his conduct, and intimating
  to him, that should he be guilty of the same fault for which he has been
  admonished, he will be punished with greater severity. Merlin, Repert. h.t.
       2. The admonition was authorized by the civil law, as a species of
  punishment for slight misdemeanors. Vide Reprimand
  
  

admonition - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  69 Moby Thesaurus words for "admonition":
     admonishment, advice, advising, advocacy, alarm, briefing,
     castigation, caution, cautioning, caveat, chastisement, chiding,
     consultation, correction, council, counsel, determent, deterrence,
     deterrent example, direction, example, exhortation, expostulation,
     final notice, final warning, forewarning, frightening off,
     guidance, hint, hortation, idea, instruction, intimidation,
     lecture, lesson, monition, moral, notice, notification,
     object lesson, objurgation, opinion, parley, proposal, rap, rating,
     rebuke, recommendation, remonstrance, reprehension, reprimand,
     reproach, reprobation, reproof, reproval, scolding, sermon,
     spanking, suggestion, talking out of, thought, threat, tip-off,
     ultimatum, upbraiding, verbum sapienti, warning, warning piece,
     wig