Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who reproves or counsels.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who admonishes.

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  • noun One who admonishes.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun someone who gives a warning so that a mistake can be avoided

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Examples

  • Be a treasure to the poor, an admonisher to the rich, an answerer of the cry of the needy, a preserver of the sanctity of thy pledge.

    Homa Sabet Tavangar: In Unity Is Our Security: Baha'i Wisdom For Violent Times Homa Sabet Tavangar 2011

  • Be a treasure to the poor, an admonisher to the rich, an answerer of the cry of the needy, a preserver of the sanctity of thy pledge.

    Homa Sabet Tavangar: In Unity Is Our Security: Baha'i Wisdom For Violent Times Homa Sabet Tavangar 2011

  • This is not to deny a certain truth, too, to something Jonathan Rosenbaum quoted Richard Combs writing in Film Comment recently, calling Haneke a "pious admonisher" and the European Stanley Kramer.

    Robin Wood on Michael Haneke 2010

  • "Although I think [outgoing trust chairman] Sir Michael Lyons has done as well as he possibly could, it's very difficult, being an advocate, regulator and admonisher," he said.

    BBC Trust has 'never made sense', says former BBC chairman 2010

  • Blessed Heaven! deny not to my prayers, my friend, my admonisher, my adviser, at a time so critical to myself.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • To show that he was an evenhanded admonisher, Pyrrpallinda also turned his ire on the second counselor.

    Running From The Deity Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2005

  • To show that he was an evenhanded admonisher, Pyrrpallinda also turned his ire on the second counselor.

    Running From The Deity Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2005

  • To show that he was an evenhanded admonisher, Pyrrpallinda also turned his ire on the second counselor.

    Running From The Deity Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2005

  • To show that he was an evenhanded admonisher, Pyrrpallinda also turned his ire on the second counselor.

    Running from the Deity Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2005

  • In his will, Knox addressed the "Papists and the unthankful world," telling them that "because they will not admit me for an admonisher, I give them over to the judgement of Him who knows the hearts of all."

    Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987

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