Word Meanings - ADMONITION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Gentle or friendly reproof; counseling against a fault or error; expression of authoritative advice; friendly caution or warning. Syn. -- Admonition, Reprehension, Reproof. Admonition is prospective, and relates to moral delinquencies; its object

Additional info about word: ADMONITION

Gentle or friendly reproof; counseling against a fault or error; expression of authoritative advice; friendly caution or warning. Syn. -- Admonition, Reprehension, Reproof. 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ADMONITION)

• Counsel
• Advice
• instruction
• monition
• admonition
• warning
• recommendation

Related words: (words related to ADMONITION)

• ADVICE
  Counseling to perform a specific illegal act. Wharton. Advice boat, a vessel employed to carry dispatches or to reconnoiter; a dispatch boat. -- To take advice. To accept advice. To consult with another or others. Syn. -- Counsel; suggestion;
• MONITION
  A process in the nature of a summons to appear and answer. (more info) to mind; akin to E. mind. See Mind, and cf. Admonish, Money, 1. Instruction or advice given by way of caution; an admonition; a warning; a caution. Sage monitions
• COUNSEL
  fr. the root of consulere to consult, of uncertain origin. Cf. 1. Interchange of opinions; mutual advising; consultation. All the chief priest and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus, to put him to death. Matt. xxvii. 1. 2. Examination
• COUNSELOR
  conseiler, F. conseiller, fr. L. consiliarius, fr. consilium 1. One who counsels; an adviser. Can he that speaks with the tongue of an enemy be a good counselor, or no Shak. 2. A member of council; one appointed to advise a sovereign
• COUNSELORSHIP
  The function and rank or office of a counselor. Bacon.
• COUNSELABLE
  1. Willing to receive counsel or follow advice. Few men of so great parts were upon all occasions more counselable than he. Clarendon. 2. Suitable to be advised; advisable, wise. He did not believe it counselable. Clarendon.
• WARNSTORE
  To furnish. "To warnstore your house." Chaucer.
• RECOMMENDATION
  1. The act of recommending. 2. That which recommends, or commends to favor; anything procuring, or tending to procure, a favorable reception, or to secure acceptance and adoption; as, he brought excellent recommendations. 3. The state of being
• INSTRUCTION
  1. The act of instructing, teaching, or furnishing with knowledge; information. 2. That which instructs, or with which one is instructed; the intelligence or information imparted; as: Precept; information; teachings. Direction; order; command.
• WARN
  To refuse. Chaucer.
• ADMONITION
  Gentle or friendly reproof; counseling against a fault or error; expression of authoritative advice; friendly caution or warning. Syn. -- Admonition, Reprehension, Reproof. Admonition is prospective, and relates to moral delinquencies; its object
• WARNINGLY
  In a warning manner.
• WARNING
  Giving previous notice; cautioning; admonishing; as, a warning voice. That warning timepiece never ceased. Longfellow. Warning piece, Warning wheel , a piece or wheel which produces a sound shortly before the clock strikes.
• WARNER
  One who warns; an admonisher.
• ADMONITIONER
  Admonisher.
• INSTRUCTIONAL
  Pertaining to, or promoting, instruction; educational.
• FOREWARN
  To warn beforehand; to give previous warning, admonition, information, or notice to; to caution in advance. We were forewarned of your coming. Shak.
• COMMONITION
  Advice; warning; instruction. Bailey.
• DISCOUNSEL
  To dissuade. Spenser.
• MISCOUNSEL
  To counsel or advise wrongly.
• DISWARN
  To dissuade from by previous warning.
• MISINSTRUCTION
  Wrong or improper instruction.
• AWARN
  To warn. Spenser.
• SUBMONITION
  Suggestion; prompting. T. Granger.
• PREADMONITION
  Previous warning or admonition; forewarning.