Other forms: admonitions
An admonition is a firm warning about behaviour. A gentle admonition, ignore the admonition, an admonition against pride.
It is a warning meant to correct rather than to threaten, which is what separates it from a threat and from a punishment. It is formal and belongs to sermons, courts and letters from headmasters.
1nounadmonitionA firm warning about behaviour.
“Despite his mother's admonitions, he went out in the rain without a coat.”
admonition is a warning.
Latin admonitio comes from admonere, to warn, from ad plus monere, to advise.
Latin
admonitio
Old French
amonicion
Middle English
amonicioun
English, today
admonition
From Middle English amonicioun, from Old French amonicion, from Latin admonitio, stem of admonere. The -d- was restored in English in the 17th century.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA