monition

English

WOTD – 26 November 2011

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Anglo-Norman monicion, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French monicion, and their source, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin monitiō (“warning, admonition”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /məˈnɪʃn̩/

Noun

monition (plural monitions)

1. A caution or warning. [from 14th c.]
   • 1820, Charles Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer, volume 1, page 191-192:

     I heard something of it, however, and, young as I was, could not help wondering how men who carried the worst passions of life into their retreat, could imagine that retreat was a refuge from the erosions of their evil tempers, the monitions of conscience, and the accusations of God.

   • 1890, Henry James, The Tragic Muse:

     He cherished the usual wise monitions, such as that one was not to make a fool of one's self and that one should not carry on one's technical experiments in public.

2. A legal notification of something. [from 15th c.]
3. A sign of impending danger; an omen. [from 15th c.]
   • 1839, Edgar Allan Poe, ‘William Wilson’:

     I recognise the first ambiguous monitions of the destiny which afterwards so fully overshadowed me.

Synonyms

• (caution or warning): caution, exhortation, warning

Related terms

• monish
• monishment
• admonish
• admonishment
• admonition
• commonition
• foremonish
• permonish
• premonish
• premonishment
• premonition
• submonish
• submonition

Translations

caution or warning

• Finnish: varoitus (fi)
• German: Mahnung (de) f
• Macedonian: предупредување n (predupreduvanje)
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• Russian: предупреждение (ru) n (predupreždenije)
• Serbo-Croatian: savjet (sh) m, opomena (sh) f, upozorenje (sh) n

legal notification

• Russian: уведомление (ru) n (uvedomlenije)
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