Definitions for monitions

monitions mo·ni·tion

Spelling: [muh-nish-uh n, moh-]
IPA: /məˈnɪʃ ən, moʊ-/

Monitions is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 192 anagrams from letters in monitions (iimnnoost).

Definitions for monitions

noun

  1. Literary. admonition or warning.
  2. an official or legal notice.
  3. Law. a court order to a person, especially one requiring an appearance and answer. Compare subpoena.
  4. a formal notice from a bishop requiring the amendment of an ecclesiastical offense.

Origin of monitions

1350-1400; Middle English monicio(u)n Latin monitiōn- (stem of monitiō) warning, equivalent to monit(us) (past participle of monēre to advise, warn) + -iōn- -ion

Examples for monitions

He had already warned him, but his monition had not been respected.

His wife heaved a deep sigh of apprehension, of renunciation, of monition.

It is at once a memorial and a monition to those that dwell beneath it.

She kept silence, with a look of superiority to all monition.

Such a commandment, then and there, was that monition about Jenkins's Ear.

But when the trial of his temper came he turned a deaf ear to every monition.

Thrice the monition was given, as required, and given without effect.

Whichever way he turned there was some monition of its presence.

And now by what method ascertain the monition of the gods in regard to our affairs?

And she gave me a meaning sign—half a wink, half a monition.

Word Value for monitions
Scrable

10

Words with friends

13

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