Ăd'mo-nĭ'tion, n.

(-nĭsh'un), n. [Fr. admonition, Lat. admonitio.] Gentle or friendly reproof; counseling against a fault or error; instruction in duties; caution; direction. “Admonition given in a perfunctory manner.” Macaulay. Syn.—Reprehension; reproof; caution.—ADMONITION, REPREHENSION, REPROOF. Admonition is prospective, and relates to moral delinquencies; its object is to prevent further transgression. Reprehension and reproof are retrospective, the former being milder than the latter, and involving less that affects personal independence. A person of any age or station may be liable to reprehension in case of wrong conduct; but reproof is confined to children or inferiors. “The master of a school may be exposed to the reprehension of the parents for any supposed impropriety; his scholars are subject to his frequent reproof.” Crabb. “When a man feels the reprehension of a friend, seconded by his own heart, he is easily heated into resentment.” Johnson. “There is an oblique way of reproof which takes off from the sharpness of it.” Steele.