monition

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Pronunciation

• (British) IPA: /məˈnɪʃn̩/

Noun

monition (plural monitions)

1. A caution or warning. [from 14th c.]
   • 1820, Charles Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer, volume 1, page 191-192:

     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.

   • 1890, Henry James, The Tragic Muse:

     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.

2. A legal notification of something. [from 15th c.]
3. A sign of impending danger; an omen. [from 15th c.]
   • 1839, Edgar Allan Poe, ‘William Wilson’:

     I recognise the first ambiguous monitions of the destiny which afterwards so fully overshadowed me.

Synonyms

• (caution or warning) caution, exhortation, warning

Related terms

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

Translations

• German: Mahnung
• Russian: предупреждение

Translations

• Russian: уведомление

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