admonitivelyadv.
/adˈmɒnᵻtɪvli/, /ədˈmɒnᵻtɪvli/, U.S. /ædˈmɑnədɪvli/, /ədˈmɑnədɪvli/ In an admonitive manner; by way of advice, warning, or reproof.
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1829 Times 24 Dec. 2/4 We do not ask the question reproachfully, but admonitively.
1889 Deseret Weekly (Salt Lake City, Utah Territory) 21 Dec. 806/2 It is evident that the learned Judge, in his charge at Beaver, never once admonitively pointed his judicial finger.
1915 F. P. Elliott Pals First xxiii. 252 Dr. Chilton coughed admonitively. ‘You don't mean you're going to give it to him, Dick!’
1987 Afr. Affairs 86 586 Just how extraordinarily..sensitive this period and the projected image of those political leaders still are stands admonitively exemplified in the current commotion [etc.].
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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