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monition
[ muh-nish-uhn, moh- ]
noun
- Literary. admonition or warning.
- an official or legal notice.
- Law. a court order to a person, especially one requiring an appearance and answer. Compare subpoena.
- a formal notice from a bishop requiring the amendment of an ecclesiastical offense.
monition
/ məʊˈnɪʃən /
noun
- a warning or caution; admonition
- Christianity a formal notice from a bishop or ecclesiastical court requiring a person to refrain from committing a specific offence
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of monition1
C14: via Old French from Latin monitiō, from monēre to warn
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Example Sentences
The Voices of our Fathers, with thousand-fold stern monition to one and all, bid us awake.
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She kept silence, with a look of superiority to all monition.
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The message and monition of the figure was that resistance would be hopeless; that if blood flowed, woe to him who shed it.
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They rowed now without further monition, clucking, each to himself, little prayers for their safe deliverance from the beast.
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How sharp was the monition of hunger when the keen sea-air blew about your face on issuing out in the morning!
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