commonition

English

Etymology

From Latin commonitio. See monition.

Noun

commonition (plural commonitions)

1. advice; warning; instruction.
   • 17th C., John Donne, Sermon XC. Preached at the Churching of the Countess of Bridgewater‎^[1]:

     as they appertain to all succeeding ages, and to us, so they are a commonition, an alarm, to raise us from the sleep, and death of sin

   • 2006, Paul Vela, Sealed With a Kiss‎^[2]:

     Daryll Smoot's sermonizing didn't begin and end with nightly commonitions

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “commonition”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)