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View synonyms for premonish

premonish

[ pri-mon-ish ]

verb (used with or without object)

  1. to warn beforehand.


premonish

/ prɪˈmɒnɪʃ /

verb

  1. rare.
    tr to admonish beforehand; forewarn
“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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Other Words From

  • unpre·monished adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of premonish1

First recorded in 1520–30; pre- + (ad)monish
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Example Sentences

Premonish, prē-mon′ish, v.t. to admonish or warn beforehand.—n.

Not to dally longer with the sympathies of our readers, we think it right to premonish them that we are composing an epicedium upon no less distinguished a personage than the Lottery, whose last breath, after many penultimate puffs, has been sobbed forth by sorrowing contractors, as if the world itself were about to be converted into a blank.

Did it premonish the passing away of old things, and herald the birth of a new order and a new social state? or did the trouble spring from innate madness in the "younger strengths" which were trying to overthrow the world's kingdoms?

I premonish you of that: in the court, boy, lacquey, or sirrah.

Thou stop'st Saint Peter in the midst of sin; Stay me, by crowing, ere I do begin; Better it is, premonish'd, for to shun A sin, than fall to weeping when 'tis done.

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