Both Uses of
admonition
in
Babbitt
- There were scores of advertisements in the booklet, and on one page the admonition: "There's no rule that you have to trade with your Fellow Boosters, but get wise, boy—what's the use of letting all this good money get outside of our happy fambly?"†
Chpt 21 *admonition = a warning or bit of advice
- But when I was in the hospital the pastor of the Pentecostal Communion Faith used to come to see me, and he showed me, right from the prophecies written in the Word of God, that the Day of Judgment is coming and all the members of the older churches are going straight to eternal damnation, because they only do lip-service and swallow the world, the flesh, and the devil—" For fifteen wild minutes she talked, pouring out admonitions to flee the wrath to come, and her face flushed, her dead voice recaptured something of the shrill energy of the old Zilla.†
Chpt 26admonitions = warnings or bits of advice
Definition:
a warning or bit of advice -- such as "Don't drink and drive."
or:
an expression of disapproval
or:
an expression of disapproval