admonitor

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin.

Noun

admonitor (plural admonitors)

1. An admonisher; a monitor.
   • 1547, John Hooper, An Answer vnto my Lord of Wynthesters Booke Intytlyd a Detection of the Deuyls Sophistrye, Zurich: Augustyne Fries,^[1]

     But as a wyckyd person he contemnyd all admonicions, desirid to finishe his treyterons purpose, and after that he had eatyn of that holy supper, he depertyd out of Christes companye, and with all dil[i]gence sowght how to haue his admonitour slaine.

   • 1673, Urian Oakes, New-England Pleaded With, Cambridge, Massachusetts, p. 35,^[2]

     […] mens hearts rise and swell against faithful Admonitors, and they must not be reproved or contradicted.

   • 1764, William Shenstone, Essays on Men, Manners, and Things in The Works in Verse and Prose of William Shenstone, London: R. & J. Dodsley, Volume 2, p. 307,^[3]

     Conscience is […] at most times a very faithful and a very prudent admonitor.

Further reading

• “admonitor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• dominator

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Portuguese

Noun

admonitor m (plural admonitores)

1. admonitor; admonisher (someone who admonishes)

Adjective

1. (rare) admonitive (conveying admonition)