monition

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun a firm rebuke
noun cautionary advice about something imminent (especially imminent danger or other unpleasantness)
noun a summons issued after the filing of a libel or claim directing all parties concerned to show cause why the judgment asked for should not be granted

From Anglo-Norman monicion, Middle French monicion, and their source, Latin monitiō (“warning, admonition”).

Nor are these monitions at all unneeded. — Moby Dick; Or, The Whale, Herman Melville
Was it a monition, or a monomania? — Lady Audley's Secret, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
Sometimes I call them not maunettes, but monettes, from their wholesome monitions. — Gargantua and Pantagruel, François Rabelais

admonition, admonishment

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