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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
cautionary
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a cautionary tale (=one that is told to warn someone about the dangers of something)
▪ This cautionary tale illustrates the dangers of looking for quick profits.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
note
▪ In view of the preceding passages, it may be of value here to add one cautionary note.
▪ Even so, a cautionary note must be sounded.
▪ I suggest this cautionary note as a result of personal experience.
▪ While many of the subsequent developments are to be welcomed, certain cautionary notes should be sounded.
▪ A cautionary note, applicable to most variegated plants is the problem of reversion.
▪ This kind of experiment, besides sounding a cautionary note, needs repeating, says Smith.
tale
▪ Thank you for your cautionary tale Richard.
▪ That is why she offers a cautionary tale about the parent traps facing all women.
▪ I suspect it was a cautionary tale.
▪ Tootle seems to be essentially a cautionary tale, warning the child to stay on the narrow road of virtue.
▪ Other revelations serve as cautionary tales about the importance of subordinating military officials to civilian authority.
▪ As a cautionary tale this book works very well.
▪ It is a cautionary tale told with sad humour on the border between innocence and togetherness.
▪ But Louima's case was the cautionary tale.
word
▪ A cautionary word should perhaps be entered here.
▪ But a cautionary word about divorce statistics is in order.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The director ended her speech on a cautionary note, when she said that next year would be even harder than this year.
▪ The group's latest album gives a cautionary account of chemical dependency.
▪ The rise and fall of this company is a cautionary tale for anyone investing in the property market.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A cautionary word should perhaps be entered here.
▪ Even so, a cautionary note must be sounded.
▪ If anything, I felt the alcohol guideline was more cautionary than before.
▪ In view of the preceding passages, it may be of value here to add one cautionary note.
▪ Raw and powerful, black smokers look like cautionary totems of an inhospitable planet.
▪ There is one other cautionary lesson that can be drawn from the Huffington campaign and applied to the Forbes phenomenon.
▪ With this cautionary illustration behind us we can now proceed to a more complex and interesting example.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cautionary

Cautionary \Cau"tion*a*ry\, a.

  1. Conveying a caution, or warning to avoid danger; as, cautionary signals.

  2. Given as a pledge or as security.

    He hated Barnevelt, for his getting the cautionary towns out of his hands.
    --Bp. Burnet.

  3. Wary; cautious. [Obs.]
    --Bacon.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
cautionary

"conveying a warning," 1590s, from caution (n.) + -ary.

Wiktionary
cautionary

a. 1 Serving to caution or warn; admonitory 2 Serving to ward off; preventive 3 (context obsolete English) Held as security or hostage

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WordNet
cautionary

  1. adj. tending to ward off; "the swastika...a very ancient prophylactic symbol occurring among all peoples"- Victor Schultze [syn: preventive, prophylactic]

  2. serving to warn; "shook a monitory finger at him"; "an exemplary jail sentence" [syn: admonitory, exemplary, monitory, warning(a)]

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Usage examples of "cautionary".

Why not take over the television networks for a night, or appear with vivid cautionary audiovisuals before the United Nations Security Council?

The proof that the Baldies were definitely here had caused the first rule to be implemented: their cautionary radio silence was now, except for dire emergency, total.

I was very young, my mother put me to bed with these stories, told in the harsh, old-fashioned French patois of her aunts, a sound that I associated with the stern-voiced chants of the Onondagan storytellers who used similar cautionary tales when they sought to persuade recalcitrant rebels to bend their will to that of the Confederacy.

Undeniably Cute: A Cautionary Tale by Marta Randall Someone, they decided, had used the place as a prison planet for pesky savages.

Doug wandered into the kitchen at ten-thirty, took one look at her preparations, and put a cautionary hand on his middle.

Teal also speared a blank flag into the sandy ground nearby, for under such a cautionary sign Dante found the Neutrals.

His action had the appearance of being cautionary rather than insulting.

Perhaps this represents a cautionary lesson against excessive sexual repression.

Our experience with Ahmed Chalabi and his inability to stir up support inside Iraq when his Iraqi National Congress was operating from the Kurdish areas in 1992-96 should be a cautionary example.

Prindin put a cautionary hand on Chandalen's arm, attempting to bring a little prudence to Chandalen's words.

Despite Low's cautionary protestations, the scientist was quick to crack his helmet seal.

All I did was take advantage of a cautionary theorem in Advanced Symbolic Logic: The apparency of an answer can be mistaken for the answer.

The proof that the Baldies were definitely here had caused the first rule to be implemented: their cautionary radio silence was now, except for dire emergency, to-tai.

Maskelyne is the pure type of one who would transcend the Earth, making him, for Mason, a walking cautionary Tale.

I bid you good folk to hear this cautionary tale, and leave this place the wiser for it.