monition

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /məˈnɪʃn̩/

Noun

monition (plural monitions)

1. A caution or warning. [from 14th c.]
   • 1890, Henry James, The Tragic Muse:

     He cherished the usual wise monitions, such as that one was not to make a fool of one's self and that one should not carry on one's technical experiments in public.

2. A legal notification of something. [from 15th c.]
3. A sign of impending danger; an omen. [from 15th c.]
   • 1839, Edgar Allan Poe, ‘William Wilson’:

     I recognise the first ambiguous monitions of the destiny which afterwards so fully overshadowed me.