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English
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman monicion, Middle French monicion, and their source, Latin monitiō (“warning, admonition”).
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Noun
monition (plural monitions)
- A caution or warning.
1663, Edward Waterhous [i.e., Edward Waterhouse], chapter XIV, in Fortescutus Illustratus; or A Commentary on that Nervous Treatise De Laudibus Legum Angliæ, Written by Sir John Fortescue Knight, , London: Tho Roycroft for Thomas Dicas , →OCLC, page 214:For if the ſoul of man vvere emancipated by virtue, it vvould not need any regulation or monition, beſides that of its invvard Tribunal; vvhich becauſe ſin does uſurp upon, has ſome relief from thoſe extern adjuments.
1820, [Charles Robert Maturin], Melmoth the Wanderer: A Tale. , volume I, Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Company, and Hurst, Robinson, and Co., , →OCLC, page 191: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.
- A legal notification of something.
- A sign of impending danger; an omen.
1839, Edgar Allan Poe, William Wilson:I recognise the first ambiguous monitions of the destiny which afterwards so fully overshadowed me.
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Noun
monition f (plural monitions)
- monition
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