an admonition to be careful He offered words of advice and admonition.
Recent Examples on the WebAnd Xi delivered an admonition that the open dissent and pro-democracy activism that had roiled — and, in many ways, defined — the city in recent years are things of the past. Austin Ramzy And Vivian Wang, BostonGlobe.com, 1 July 2022 Clipboard in hand, Daria Ripa, a registry officiant for the better part of a decade, corralled the waiting couples, offering up admonition and instruction.Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2022 To paraphrase an admonition from a classic Rolling Stones album: This movie should be played real loud. Sonaiya Kelleystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2022 The accusation, which was first reported by the Voice of San Diego, includes the admonition that destroying public records is a violation of both the municipal code and state law. Jeff Mcdonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 May 2022 One former clerk recalled, in an interview on the High School SCOTUS blog, Justice Antonin Scalia’s stern admonition to his new class of clerks on their first day.New York Times, 8 May 2022 The report also included an admonition to motorists. Sarah Rankin, ajc, 2 Apr. 2022 The Biden Administration countered last week with an admonition. Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2022 Starting in the 1970s and 1980s, courts in the United States began moving away from instructing juries with Hale’s admonition to be particularly skeptical of rape claims. Ken Armstrong, ProPublica, 6 May 2022 See More
Word History
Etymology
Middle English ammonicioun, admonicioun, borrowed from Anglo-French amonicion, borrowed from Latin admonitiōn-, admonitiō, from admoni- (variant stem of admonēre "to admonish") + -tiōn-, -tiō, suffix of action nouns