monitory
serving to admonish or warn; admonitory.
giving monition.
Also called monitory letter. a letter, as one from a bishop, containing a monition.
Origin of monitory
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How to use monitory in a sentence
When he found that his monitory coughs and looks produced no effect on his niece, he warned his sister-in-law.
Frederick Chopin as a Man and Musician | Frederick NiecksHe walked close to Mayo and shook a monitory finger under the young man's nose.
Blow The Man Down | Holman DayWe 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.
The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 (2 vols) | Thomas De QuinceyHim Nature solicits with all her placid, all her monitory pictures.
Essays | Ralph Waldo Emerson
British Dictionary definitions for monitory
/ (ˈmɒnɪtərɪ, -trɪ) /
warning or admonishing: a monitory look
rare a letter containing a monition
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