Both Uses of
admonition
in
Moby Dick
- Ah, ye admonitions and warnings! why stay ye not when ye come?†
Chpt 34-36 *
- …of youth declines; as years and dumps increase; as reflection lends her solemn pauses; in short, as a general lassitude overtakes the sated Turk; then a love of ease and virtue supplants the love for maidens; our Ottoman enters upon the impotent, repentant, admonitory stage of life, forswears, disbands the harem, and grown to an exemplary, sulky old soul, goes about all alone among the meridians and parallels saying his prayers, and warning each young Leviathan from his amorous errors.†
Chpt 88-90
Definition:
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(admonition) a warning or bit of advice -- such as "Don't drink and drive."