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admonition

[ad-muh-nish-uhn] / ˌæd məˈnɪʃ ən /


NOUN
scolding
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STRONGEST


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Plainly the 20th century has turned into the Age of Admonition.

From Time Magazine Archive

I made him a profound Reverence, thank'd him for his charitable Admonition, and told him I hoped nothing should win me from the Performance of a Duty which carry'd with it such ineffable Rewards.

From A Voyage to Cacklogallinia With a Description of the Religion, Policy, Customs and Manners of That Country by Brunt, Captain Samuel

Admonition, ad-mon-ish′un, n. kind reproof: counsel: advice: ecclesiastical censure.—adjs.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

Admonition did no good, nor prohibition in strong terms.

From African Camp Fires by White, Stewart Edward

In July, apparently, Knox printed his “Faithful Admonition to the Professors of God’s Truth in England,” and two editions of the tract were published in that country. 

From John Knox and the Reformation by Lang, Andrew




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