monition

[ muh-nish-uhn, moh- ]

noun

1. Literary. admonition or warning.
2. an official or legal notice.
3. Law. a court order to a person, especially one requiring an appearance and answer. Compare subpoena.
4. a formal notice from a bishop requiring the amendment of an ecclesiastical offense.

monition

/ məʊˈnɪʃən /

noun

1. a warning or caution; admonition
2. Christianity a formal notice from a bishop or ecclesiastical court requiring a person to refrain from committing a specific offence

Word History and Origins

Origin of monition¹

1350–1400; Middle English monicio ( u ) n < Latin monitiōn- (stem of monitiō ) warning, equivalent to monit ( us ) (past participle of monēre to advise, warn) + -iōn- -ion

Word History and Origins

Origin of monition¹

C14: via Old French from Latin monitiō, from monēre to warn

Example Sentences

The Voices of our Fathers, with thousand-fold stern monition to one and all, bid us awake.

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She kept silence, with a look of superiority to all monition.

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The message and monition of the figure was that resistance would be hopeless; that if blood flowed, woe to him who shed it.

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They rowed now without further monition, clucking, each to himself, little prayers for their safe deliverance from the beast.

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How sharp was the monition of hunger when the keen sea-air blew about your face on issuing out in the morning!

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