commonition

English

Etymology

From Latin commonitio. See monition.

Noun

commonition (plural commonitions)

1. (archaic) advice, warning, or instruction.
   • 17th C., John Donne, Sermon XC. Preached at the Churching of the Countess of Bridgewater‎:

     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 sin

   • 2006, Paul Vela, Sealed With a Kiss‎:

     Daryll Smoot's sermonizing didn't begin and end with nightly commonitions

References

• “commonition”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.