admonisher

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admonish +‎ -er

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admonisher (plural admonishers)

  1. One who admonishes.
    • 1857, Herman Melville, chapter XVII, in The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade:
      The question was put distinctly, yet resonantly, as when a great clock-bell—stunning admonisher—strikes one; and the stroke, though single, comes bedded in the belfry clamor.

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