admonish

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I will admonish, for his good, my son,

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  1. transitive verb To reprove gently but earnestly.
  2. transitive verb To counsel (another) against something to be avoided; caution.
  3. transitive verb To remind of something forgotten or disregarded, as an obligation or a responsibility.
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  • If they were going it to admonish, one would already be in charge of it later. —  New Document
  • You admonish, and at the same time encourage and strengthen me, to carry out further the artistic task that is set me. —  Letters of Franz Liszt, Volume 2: "From Rome to the End"
  • I believe the posts aren't really intended to harm but to admonish in the hope that maybe one teenager might be spared in the future.
  • Readers may scold, hector, admonish or taunt Ted by e-mailing him at thecarygrantrules@hotmail. com. —  Pajiba
  • The first measure for reforming a disobedient wife is to admonish her. —  Mick Hartley
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English amonishen, admonishen, alteration of amonesten, from Old French amonester, admonester, from Vulgar Latin *admonestāre, from Latin admonēre : ad-, ad- + monēre, to warn; see men-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English admonysshen, amonysshen, -esshen, -asen, etc., earlier and properly amonesten, -isten (adm- for am- in imitation of the L. original, and -ish for -est in imitation of verbs in -ish), from Old French amonester (French admonester), advise, from Middle Latin *admonistare, a corruption of admonitare, freq. of Latin admonere, past participle admonitus, advise, from ad, to, + monere, advise, warn: see monish, monition.
 

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