monitory
Americanadjective
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serving to admonish or warn; admonitory.
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giving monition.
noun
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monitories
plural
adjective
noun
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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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The company said an independent data and safety monitory board found that the potential vaccine “did not meet the statistical threshold necessary to declare early success” in the study.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 11, 2023
A distinctively American vision is planted throughout the action of “Us,” with an explicit and monitory allusion to the notion of national destiny.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 23, 2019
But I’ve been in the monitory for what feels like ever because TBV did nothing for me.
From New York Times ● May 1, 2018
The Third, Foster Wallace wrote, “included such terms as heighth and irregardless without any monitory labels on them.”
From Slate ● Jan. 12, 2015
When, for serio-comic verse, he attempted to delineate a monitory apparition, in the shape of Napoleon's "Red Man," the result was absurdity veiled by dulness.
From George Cruikshank by W. H. Chesson
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