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admonition
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  • She offered the admonition not to underestimate the importance of religion in world affairs.
    admonition = warning or bit of advice
  • I chatted politely and remembered Lindsay's admonition to chew with my mouth closed.  (source)
    admonition = advice
  • Next was the electrical room, where Nina's admonition that the Count touch nothing was quite unnecessary, since the metallic buzzing and sulfurous smell would have counseled caution to the most reckless of adventurers.  (source)
    admonition = warning or advice
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  • They based this new rule on the admonition found in Proverbs 27:2: Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.  (source)
    admonition = advice or instruction
  • On the contrary, all I ever got were admonitions not to be so noisy.  (source)
    admonitions = warnings or advice
  • At last, Narcissa hurried up a street named Spinner's End, over which the towering mill chimney seemed to hover like a giant admonitory finger.  (source)
    admonitory = serving to criticize, advise, or warn
  • Then his SAC's admonition came back to him.  (source)
    admonition = a warning or advice
  • Faith ....all faiths ....are admonitions that there is something we cannot understand, something to which we are accountable ....With faith we are accountable to each other, to ourselves, and to a higher truth.†  (source)
    admonitions = warnings or bits of advice
  • A number of shaped sayings, words that formed triangles and tall palms, trees of life perhaps—sayings in English about the passage of the soul and the eye of God, and there were mystical eyes and admonitory hands on all four walls and the ceiling.†  (source)
    admonitory = relating to a warning or bit of advice
  • His mother, Felicitas Faz, warned him that the women there were faster and wilder than the mujer catolica joven, the good churchgoing girls from San Antonio. He took his mother's admonition in stride and prayed she was right.  (source)
    admonition = warning
  • I sat reflecting upon what he'd said, and what weighed as heavily upon me through all of it were Claudia's strange admonitions, that this gentle-eyed young man had said to her, 'Die,' and beyond that my slowly accumulating disgust with the vampires in the ballroom above.†  (source)
    admonitions = warnings or bits of advice
  • He jeered at his wickedness and at all the things that make the admonitory world groan.†  (source)
    admonitory = relating to a warning or bit of advice
  • "Handle with care" was the admonition scrawled on the remains of a photo album.  (source)
    admonition = warning or advice
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