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** English
*** Etymology
From [en].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Adjective
[en-adj]
1. Of or pertaining to an admonition ; serving to reprove , warn or advise .
2. * [page=64]
3. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1775 | author=w:Elizabeth Griffith | title=The Morality of [William Shakespeare] ’s Drama Illustrated | location=London | publisher=T. Cadell | section=A General Postscript, pp. 526-527 | url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004885264.0001.000
|passage=Mere descriptions of virtue or vice do not strike us, so strongly, as
the visible representations of them. [Richard III (play)]’s dream,
[Macbeth]’s soliloquy in her sleep, the Dagger Scene in the same Play, [Henry
VI, Part 2]’s last moments, with many other passages in our Author, of the
same ADMONITORY kind, avail us more than whole volumes of [De Officiis], or
[Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium].}}
1. * [15]
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1934 | author=w:Dorothy L. Sayers | title=w:The Nine Tailors | location=London | publisher=Victor Gollancz | year_published=1975 | chapter=II. A Full Peal of Grandsire Tripes | section=The Second Part | url=https://www.fadedpage.com/books/20140327/html.php
|passage=From it [the pew], Mrs. Venables was able [...] to keep an
ADMONITORY eye on the school children who occupied the north aisle, and to
frown at those who turned round to stare or make faces.}}
**** Derived terms
[en]
**** Translations
[Of or pertaining to an admonition]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Italian: [it]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
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