monition

Example Sentences

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The tribunal ordered a "monition", a formal warning or caution, for all the charges.

From BBC • Aug. 26, 2025

This great big old bear of a man, you see, according to D.C. gossip Lloyd Grove, "enjoys the friendliest relations with the Washington media elite of any prospective candidate vying for the Republican monition."

From Salon • Dec. 22, 2010

One feels an eerie pre monition and vulnerability before the spectacle.

From Time Magazine Archive

A hidden, insidious disease, which seldom leaves its nature long doubtful, had begun its work, and the quickened spirit caught the first whisper of monition.

From Memoir of Mary L. Ware, Wife of Henry Ware, Jr. by Hall, Edward B.

The message and monition of the figure was that resistance would be hopeless; that if blood flowed, woe to him who shed it.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII by Various