commonition
nounEtymology From Latin commonitio. See monition.
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: