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Admonishment   /ædmˈɑnɪʃmɛnt/   Listen
Admonishment

noun
1.
A firm rebuke.  Synonyms: admonition, monition.






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"Admonishment" Quotes from Famous Books



... the more incurable it is: wherefore the sins against the Holy Ghost, being most grave, are declared to be unpardonable. Now the sin of incontinence would appear to be more incurable than the sin of intemperance. For a person's sin is cured by admonishment and correction, which seemingly are no good to the incontinent man, since he knows he is doing wrong, and does wrong notwithstanding: whereas it seems to the intemperate man that he is doing well, so that it were good for him to be ...
— Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) • Thomas Aquinas

... work of an Indian artist, native gentlemen out there would simply have smiled pitiably at such ignorance, and given him the gentle admonishment that he was only to make a fool of himself for his pains. There was also a picture of a Diptych, in two portions, with a background of gilt, but the figure of the Diptych himself very poorly represented ...
— Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. • F. Anstey



Words linked to "Admonishment" :   monition, reproof, rebuke, admonition, reprimand, reprehension, admonish, reproval



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