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
When the maidens had finished the ballads, they went on to sing the "Supplementary Record;" but the Monitory Vision Fairy, perceiving the total absence of any interest in Pao-yü, heaved a sigh.
From Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books by Joly, H. Bencraft
Come along then with me to the palace of the Monitory Vision Fairy, and let us deliver up this good-for-nothing object, and have done with it!
From Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books by Joly, H. Bencraft
There, scarcely distinguishable from the crags, stood up a grey tower, the bell-tower of an ancient devout institution, the House Monitory.
From The Unknown Sea by Housman, Clemence
As soon as they caught sight of Pao-yü, they all, with one voice, resentfully reproached the Monitory Vision Fairy.
From Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books by Joly, H. Bencraft
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