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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Admonition \Ad`mo*ni"tion\, n. [OE. amonicioun OF amonition,
F. admonition, fr L. admonitio, fr admonere See
{Admonish}.]
Gentle or friendly reproof; counseling against a fault or
error; expression of authoritative advice; friendly caution
or warning.
Syn: {Admonition}, {Reprehension}, {Reproof}.
Usage: Admonition is prospective, and relates to moral
delinquencies; its object is to prevent further
transgression. Reprehension and reproof are
retrospective, the former being milder than the
latter. A person of any age or station may be liable
to reprehension in case of wrong conduct; but reproof
is the act of a superior. It is authoritative
fault-finding or censure addressed to children or to
inferiors.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
admonition
n 1: cautionary advice [syn: {warning}, {word of advice}]
2: a firm rebuke [syn: {admonishment}, {monition}]
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
ADMONITION, n. Gentle reproof, as with a meat-axe. Friendly warning.
Consigned by way of admonition,
His soul forever to perdition.
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