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monition en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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• /məˈnɪʃn̩/ (UK)

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman monicion, Middle French monicion, and their source, Latin monitiō (“warning, admonition”).

Meanings

1. A caution or warning.
   • 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. 1820, [Charles Robert Maturin], Melmoth the Wanderer: A Tale. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Company, and Hurst, Robinson, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 191:
   • 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. 1663, Edward Waterhous[e], 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:
   • 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. 1889–1890, Henry James, The Tragic Muse […], volume (please specify the page), Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company […], published 7 June 1890, →OCLC:
2. A legal notification of something.
3. A sign of impending danger; an omen.
   • I recognise the first ambiguous monitions of the destiny which afterwards so fully overshadowed me. 1839, Edgar Allan Poe, William Wilson:

Forms

Relateds

permonish · submonish · submonition · admonishment · admonition · premonition · premonishment · premonish · foremonish · monishment · commonition · monish · admonish

Synonyms

warning (caution or warning) · exhortation (caution or warning) · caution (caution or warning)

Translations (11)

ota ایقاظ (caution or warning) · sh savjet (caution or warning) · sh upozorenje (caution or warning) · mk предупредување (caution or warning) · de Mahnung (caution or warning) · bg предупреждение (caution or warning) · fi varoitus (caution or warning) · ru уведомление (legal notification) · ru предупреждение (caution or warning) · sh opomena (caution or warning) · bg поличба (omen)