monition
Literary. admonition or warning.
an official or legal notice.
Law. a court order to a person, especially one requiring an appearance and answer.: Compare subpoena.
a formal notice from a bishop requiring the amendment of an ecclesiastical offense.
Origin of monition
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How to use monition in a sentence
The Voices of our Fathers, with thousand-fold stern monition to one and all, bid us awake.
The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 | Ministry of EducationShe kept silence, with a look of superiority to all monition.
New Grub Street | George GissingThe message and monition of the figure was that resistance would be hopeless; that if blood flowed, woe to him who shed it.
They rowed now without further monition, clucking, each to himself, little prayers for their safe deliverance from the beast.
The Skipper and the Skipped | Holman DayHow sharp was the monition of hunger when the keen sea-air blew about your face on issuing out in the morning!
British Dictionary definitions for monition
/ (məʊˈnɪʃən) /
a warning or caution; admonition
Christianity a formal notice from a bishop or ecclesiastical court requiring a person to refrain from committing a specific offence
Origin of monition
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