Word Meanings - ADMONITORY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

That conveys admonition; warning or reproving; as, an admonitory glance. -- Ad*mon"i*to*ri*ly,, adv.

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• REPROVE
  1. To convince. When he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment. John xvi. 9. 2. To disprove; to refute. Reprove my allegation, if you can. Shak. 3. To chide to the face as blameworthy; to accuse as guilty;
• GLANCE
  A name given to some sulphides, mostly dark-colored, which have a brilliant metallic luster, as the sulphide of copper, called copper glance. Glance coal, anthracite; a mineral composed chiefly of carbon. -- Glance cobalt, cobaltite, or gray cobalt.
• WARNSTORE
  To furnish. "To warnstore your house." Chaucer.
• REPROVABLE
  Worthy of reproof or censure. Jer. Taylor. Syn. -- Blamable; blameworthy; censurable; reprehensible; culpable; rebukable. --Re*prov"a*ble*ness, n. -- Re*prov"a*bly, adv.
• REPROVER
  One who, or that which, reproves.
• ADMONITORY
  That conveys admonition; warning or reproving; as, an admonitory glance. -- Ad*mon"i*to*ri*ly,, adv.
• WARN
  To refuse. Chaucer.
• ADMONITION
  Gentle or friendly reproof; counseling against a fault or error; expression of authoritative advice; friendly caution or warning. Syn. -- Admonition, Reprehension, Reproof. Admonition is prospective, and relates to moral delinquencies; its object
• REPROVAL
  Reproof. Sir P. Sidney.
• WARNINGLY
  In a warning manner.
• WARNING
  Giving previous notice; cautioning; admonishing; as, a warning voice. That warning timepiece never ceased. Longfellow. Warning piece, Warning wheel , a piece or wheel which produces a sound shortly before the clock strikes.
• WARNER
  One who warns; an admonisher.
• REPROVINGLY
  In a reproving manner.
• ADMONITIONER
  Admonisher.
• FOREWARN
  To warn beforehand; to give previous warning, admonition, information, or notice to; to caution in advance. We were forewarned of your coming. Shak.
• EYEGLANCE
  A glance of eye.
• IRREPROVABLE
  Incapable of being justly reproved; irreproachable; blameless; upright. -- Ir`re*prov"a*ble*ness, n. -- Ir`re*prov"a*bly, adv.
• SELF-REPROVINGLY
  In a self-reproving way.
• SELF-REPROVING
  Reproving one's self; reproving by consciousness of guilt.
• OVERGLANCE
  To glance over.
• DISWARN
  To dissuade from by previous warning.
• SELF-REPROVED
  Reproved by one's own conscience or one's own sense of guilt.
• UNREPROVED
  1. Not reproved. Sandys. 2. Not having incurred reproof, blameless. In unreproved pleasures free. Milton.
• AWARN
  To warn. Spenser.
• PREADMONITION
  Previous warning or admonition; forewarning.