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commonition en · NOUN

Etymology

From Latin commonitio. See monition.

Meanings

1. (archaic) advice, warning, or instruction.
   • as they appertain to all succeeding ages, and to us, so they are a commonition, an alarm, to raise us from the sleep, and death of sin 17th C., John Donne, Sermon XC. Preached at the Churching of the Countess of Bridgewater:
   • Daryll Smoot's sermonizing didn't begin and end with nightly commonitions 2006, Paul Vela, Sealed With a Kiss:

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