monitory
Americanadjective
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serving to admonish or warn; admonitory.
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giving monition.
noun
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of monitory
1400–50; late Middle English < Latin monitōrius reminding, warning, equivalent to moni- ( see monitor) + -tōrius -tory 1
Example Sentences
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As night came on fully the light and the voice of the House Monitory passed away, and the buoy-bells, and the roar of breakers, and the heavy black of the coast.
From The Unknown Sea by Housman, Clemence
I'm the Fairy of Monitory Vision, of the cave of Drooping Fragrance, in the mount of Emitted Spring, within the confines of the Great Void.
From Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books by Joly, H. Bencraft
The Monitory Proclamation of Emancipation was issued on the 22d of September.
From Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 by Blaine, James Gillespie
He knew the voice of the House Monitory.
From The Unknown Sea by Housman, Clemence
Monitory Verses To a Young Lady, who indulged too gloomy ideas of our sublunary state.
From Poems on Serious and Sacred Subjects Printed only as Private Tokens of Regard, for the Particular Friends of the Author by Hayley, William
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