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monitory

[ mon-i-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee ]

adjective

  1. serving to admonish or warn; admonitory.
  2. giving monition.


noun

, plural mon·i·to·ries.
  1. Also called monitory letter. a letter, as one from a bishop, containing a monition.

monitory

/ ˈmɒnɪtərɪ; -trɪ /

adjective

  1. warning or admonishing

    a monitory look

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


noun

  1. rare.
    a letter containing a monition
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of monitory1

1400–50; late Middle English < Latin monitōrius reminding, warning, equivalent to moni- ( monitor ) + -tōrius -tory 1
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Example Sentences

When he found that his monitory coughs and looks produced no effect on his niece, he warned his sister-in-law.

He walked close to Mayo and shook a monitory finger under the young man's nose.

We have an obscure remembrance that the Queen's speech uttered a voice on this point—a solemn, a monitory, a parental voice.

The face of this monitory Hebe haunted me for some years in a way that I must faintly attempt to explain.

Him Nature solicits with all her placid, all her monitory pictures.

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