What is "admonition"

Usage examples of "admonition".

Jones himself, that he, far from being offended, thankfully received the admonition of the good woman, expressed much concern for what had past, excused it aswell as he could, and promised never more to bring the same disturbances into the house.

Though you cannot want sufficient calls to repentance for the many unwarrantable weaknesses exemplified in your behaviour to this wretch, so much to the prejudice of your own lawful family, and of your character, I say, though these may sufficiently be supposed to prick and goad your conscience at this season, I should yet be wanting to my duty, if I spared to give you some admonition in order to bring you to a due sense of your errors.

On this admonition he took his departure, revolving in his mind various stratagems whereby the younger Miss Merriville could be excluded from the forthcoming visit to Grosvenor Place without opposition from her masterful sister.

With a passing admonition to Felix to keep Luff quiet, he hastened out of the room.

Some of his ministerial associates took offence at his eccentricities, and called on a visit of admonition to the offending clergyman.

This admonition, delivered in his best courtroom tone, caused two of the guards to retreat a couple of steps.

Now it was a poster on the wall, an admonition to wear seat belts, that demanded her unwavering gaze.

Western: nor did that good lady depart without leaving some wholesome admonitions with her brother, on the dreadful effects of his passion, or, as she pleased to call it, madness.

And now, my friend, having given you these few admonitions, we will, if you please, once more set forward with our history.

I shall endeavour to extract, from the midst of insult and contempt and maledictions, those admonitions which may tend to correct whatever imperfections such censurers may discover in this my first serious appeal to the Public.

Nothing can be more satisfactory to me than the interest which your admonitions express.

This feeling alone would make your most kind and wise admonitions, on the subject of the economy of intellectual force, valuable to me.

All I get is cfiticism and admonitions to put my girls to wojk in the mill.

He pictured to himself the moment when he must advance to meet her, and could not help thinking of his little tutor Chufu, above whom he towered by two heads while he was still a boy, and who used to call up his admonitions to him from below.

After issuing several more admonitions against going in his refrigerator, Richard allowed the three women to lie him out on his bed with his arms outstretched.