monition
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Anglo-Norman monicion, Middle French monicion, and their source, Latin monitiō (“warning, admonition”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
monition (plural monitions)
- A caution or warning. [from 14th c.]
- 1663, Edward Waterhous [i.e., Edward Waterhouse], chapter XIV, in Fortescutus Illustratus; or A Commentary on that Nervous Treatise De Laudibus Legum Angliæ, Written by Sir John Fortescue Knight, […], London: […] Tho[mas] Roycroft for Thomas Dicas […], →OCLC, page 214:
- For if the ſoul of man vvere emancipated by virtue, it vvould not need any regulation or monition, beſides that of its invvard Tribunal; vvhich becauſe ſin does uſurp upon, has ſome relief from thoſe extern adjuments.
- 1820, [Charles Robert Maturin], Melmoth the Wanderer: A Tale. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Company, and Hurst, Robinson, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 191:
- I heard something of it, however, and, young as I was, could not help wondering how men who carried the worst passions of life into their retreat, could imagine that retreat was a refuge from the erosions of their evil tempers, the monitions of conscience, and the accusations of God.
- 1890, Henry James, The Tragic Muse:
- He cherished the usual wise monitions, such as that one was not to make a fool of one's self and that one should not carry on one's technical experiments in public.
- A legal notification of something. [from 15th c.]
- A sign of impending danger; an omen. [from 15th c.]
- 1839, Edgar Allan Poe, William Wilson:
- I recognise the first ambiguous monitions of the destiny which afterwards so fully overshadowed me.
Synonyms[edit]
- (caution or warning): caution, exhortation, warning
Related terms[edit]
- monish
- monishment
- admonish
- admonishment
- admonition
- commonition
- foremonish
- permonish
- premonish
- premonishment
- premonition
- submonish
- submonition
Translations[edit]
caution or warning
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legal notification
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French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (file)
Noun[edit]
monition f (plural monitions)
Further reading[edit]
- “monition”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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