Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who reproves or counsels.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who admonishes.
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- noun One who
admonishes .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who gives a warning so that a mistake can be avoided
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Examples
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Be a treasure to the poor, an admonisher to the rich, an answerer of the cry of the needy, a preserver of the sanctity of thy pledge.
Homa Sabet Tavangar: In Unity Is Our Security: Baha'i Wisdom For Violent Times
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Be a treasure to the poor, an admonisher to the rich, an answerer of the cry of the needy, a preserver of the sanctity of thy pledge.
Homa Sabet Tavangar: In Unity Is Our Security: Baha'i Wisdom For Violent Times
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This is not to deny a certain truth, too, to something Jonathan Rosenbaum quoted Richard Combs writing in Film Comment recently, calling Haneke a "pious admonisher" and the European Stanley Kramer.
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"Although I think [outgoing trust chairman] Sir Michael Lyons has done as well as he possibly could, it's very difficult, being an advocate, regulator and admonisher," he said.
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Blessed Heaven! deny not to my prayers, my friend, my admonisher, my adviser, at a time so critical to myself.
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To show that he was an evenhanded admonisher, Pyrrpallinda also turned his ire on the second counselor.
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To show that he was an evenhanded admonisher, Pyrrpallinda also turned his ire on the second counselor.
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To show that he was an evenhanded admonisher, Pyrrpallinda also turned his ire on the second counselor.
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To show that he was an evenhanded admonisher, Pyrrpallinda also turned his ire on the second counselor.
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In his will, Knox addressed the "Papists and the unthankful world," telling them that "because they will not admit me for an admonisher, I give them over to the judgement of Him who knows the hearts of all."
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