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commonition

commonition noun: advice, warning, or instruction.

Noun

commonition (plural commonitions)

  1. (archaic) advice, warning, or instruction.
    • as they appertain to all succeeding ages, and to us, so they are a commonition, an alarm, to raise us from the sleep, and death of sin17th C., John Donne, Sermon XC. Preached at the Churching of the Countess of Bridgewater
    • Daryll Smoot's sermonizing didn't begin and end with nightly commonitions2006, Paul Vela, Sealed With a Kiss

Forms of commonition

pluralcommonitions

Origin of commonition

From Latin commonitio. See monition.

Questions about commonition

What does commonition mean?
Commonition means advice, warning, or instruction.
What part of speech is commonition?
Commonition is a noun.
What is the plural of commonition?
The plural of commonition is commonitions.

Words near commonition in the dictionary

  1. commonise
  2. commonised
  3. commonises
  4. commonish
  5. commonising
  6. commonition
  7. commonitions
  8. commonitory
  9. commonization
  10. commonizations
  11. commonize

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