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

And she gave me a meaning sign—half a wink, half a monition.

From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. II) by O'Shea, John Augustus

Too often they carry their fidelity to this monition to the illegitimate length of insistence upon idiosyncracy rather than of emphasis upon personality.

From Child Versus Parent Some Chapters on the Irrepressible Conflict in the Home by Wise, Stephen