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Admonishing   /ædmˈɑnɪʃɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Admonish  v. t.  (past & past part. admonished; pres. part. admonishing)  
1.
To warn or notify of a fault; to reprove gently or kindly, but seriously; to exhort. "Admonish him as a brother."
2.
To counsel against wrong practices; to cation or advise; to warn against danger or an offense; followed by of, against, or a subordinate clause. "Admonishing one another in psalms and hymns." "I warned thee, I admonished thee, foretold The danger, and the lurking enemy."
3.
To instruct or direct; to inform; to notify. "Moses was admonished of God, when he was about to make the tabernacle."


adjective
admonishing  adj.  
1.
Expressing adverse criticism as a corrective
Synonyms: admonitory, reproachful, reproving





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"Admonishing" Quotes from Famous Books



... the admonishing pallor that is again overspreading my poor children's cheeks, has led to a determination of again sending them out of town; and I heard yesterday that on Saturday next they are to go to the neighborhood ...
— Records of Later Life • Frances Anne Kemble
... you must know, I have to complete a good work here, by bringing Mrs. Flockhart into the bosom of the Catholic church, or at least half way, and that is to your Episcopal meeting-house. Oh, Baron! if you heard her fine counter-tenor admonishing Kate and Matty in the morning, you, who understand music, would tremble at the idea of hearing her shriek in the psalmody ...
— Waverley • Sir Walter Scott
... been manifested to his saints, [1:27]to whom God was pleased to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the nations, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory, [1:28]whom we preach, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ; [1:29]for which I also labor, striving with his power which operates in me ...
— The New Testament • Various
... when the only response to his joyous invitation was Helen's voice crossly admonishing the Jampot: "Oh, you do pull so; you're ...
— Jeremy • Hugh Walpole
... forget for any length of time one or another of his contrasting activities, however absorbed he may seem to be in some one field of action. Now, when he is plunged in a hand-to-hand struggle with the criminal conditions of London, when he is admonishing the gayer end of the Town with his weekly censorial satire and ridicule, and while he is watching the enactment of new legislation for which he had so strenously pleaded,—he suddenly reappears in his earlier role of classical scholar. On June 17, the columns of the Journal ...
— Henry Fielding: A Memoir • G. M. Godden


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