commonition

advice, warning, or instruction.

Noun

  1. 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 sin - 17th C., John Donne, Sermon XC. Preached at the Churching of the Countess of...
    • Daryll Smoot's sermonizing didn't begin and end with nightly commonitions - 2006, Paul Vela, Sealed With a Kiss:

Origin

From Latin commonitio. See monition.

Forms

commonitions