monition
/məˈnɪʃ(ə)n
/noun rare
1A warning of impending danger.Our monitions usually prompt the illiberal intelligentsia to chortle and chide about the Trib's seemingly amazing ability to find a Karl Marx devotee lurking virtually everywhere....
- For all of his insights into our geopolitical situation and his monitions about the perilous path we're on, when one reads the two books in tandem, the effect is one of moral numbness.
- Any political operative who would consider attempting a backstabing operation needs to have a certain six-word monition whispered in their ear.
1.1A formal notice from a bishop or ecclesiastical court admonishing a person not to do something specified.
Origin
Late Middle English: via Old French from Latin monitio(n-), from monere 'warn'.
Rhymes
- Stationers' Hall
- stationer's rule
- stationery
- Stationery Office
- stationette
- station finder
- station hack
- station hand
- station head
- station hospital
- station house
- station indicator
- Stationing Committee
- station-Jack
- station-keeping
- station line
- station man
- station manager
- stationmaster
- station meter
- station-mistress
- stationnaire
- Station of the Cross
- station point
- station pointer