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noun Mild, kind, yet earnest reproof.
noun Cautionary advice or warning.

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The act, or an act, of admonishing; counsel or advice; gentle reproof; instruction in duties; caution; direction. Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition. 1 Cor. x. 11. He learns the look of things, and none the less For admonitions from the hunger-pinch. Browning, Fra Lippo Lippi.
Eccles., public or private reproof to reclaim an offender: the first step in church discipline, followed, when unheeded, by suspension or excommunication. Synonyms Admonition, Reprehension, Reproof, Monition, Censure, Reproach, Rebuke, Reprimand, remonstrance, expostulation, warning, suggestion, hint, intimation. In the primary and almost invariable sense, admonition, reprehension, and reproof are bestowed upon conduct which is morally defective. Censure and reprehension may or may not be addressed directly to the person blamed; the utterances expressed by the other words are always so addressed. Admonition is caution or warning with reference to future conduct; it is often based upon past failures: as, admonition not to repeat a fault. It is often an official act, as of the authorities of a church, school, or college. Monition is a softer word, and is mostly confined to subjective promptings or warnings: as, the monitions of conscience or of reason. The other words are wholly retrospective. Reprehension may be the mildest of them, or may be strengthened by an adjective: as, the severest reprehension. It is unofficial, and may denote the act of an equal. Reproof is the act of a superior or elder, an authoritative and personal censure. Censure is unfavorable judgment, generally severe, possibly official. Reproach is censure with opprobrium; it is used chiefly as a relief to excited feelings, and is intended to humiliate rather than correct. Rebuke is energetic and summary, like stopping one's mouth; it implies feeling, like reproach, but more self-control. Reprimand is the act of a superior, is severe, and is often official and public as a form of penalty: as, sentenced to receive a reprimand from his commanding officer in the presence of the regiment. (See the discrimination of corresponding verbs under censure, v.) A man that is an heretic, after the first and second admonition, reject. Tit. iii. 10. The admonitions, fraternal or parental, of his fellow-Christians, or the governors of the church, then more public reprehensions. Hammond. Those best can bear reproof who merit praise. Pope, Essay on Criticism, 1. 583. Divine monition Nature yields, That not by bread alone we live. Wordsworth, Devotional Incitements. The pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise. Jefferson, Correspondence, II. 440. Dread of reproach, both by checking cowardice in battle and by restraining misbehaviour in social life, has tended to public and private advantage. H. Spencer, Prin. of Psychol., § 526. My caution was more pertinent Than the rebuke you give it. Shak., Cor., ii. 2. The knight … inquires how such an one's wife, or mother, or son, or father do[es], whom he does not see at church; which is understood as a secret reprimand to the person absent. Addison, Spectator.

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When that direction came in the form of a seven-word admonition, it was not at all what I had expected, or hoped, to hear: — Crosswalk.com - Home
The purpose behind this admonition is supposedly to clear your mind of any thoughts that might prove to be a distraction that will interrupt your meditative state.
The "be ye wise as serpents" aspect of his admonition is the essential that the church gives up first as it starts a slide into apostasy. — The Reality Check
So my admonition is not to assume when you see someone in a uniform with badge associating them with an agency of renown that they are the same caliber personnel along with the associated training. — Capitol Hill Blue - The oldest political news site on the Internet
It's surely a tongue-in-cheek admonition, as the word "cocktail" wouldn't have been known in the colonial era that our fictional historian details. — Married ...with dinner

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Middle English amonicioun, from Old French amonition, from Latin admonitiō, admonitiōn-, from admonitus, past participle of admonēre, to admonish; see admonish.

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from Middle English amonicion, -oun, from Old French amonition, later admonition, from Latin admonitio(n-), from admonere, advise, admonish: see admonish.

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