What is admonished?
What is admonished?
- To counsel (another) against something to be avoided or warn (that something is dangerous):"[Another competitor in the race] admonished him on the dangers of going out too fast"(Neal Bascomb)."Magazine articles .. admonished that women's financial independence was driving a wedge between husband and wife"(Lillian Faderman). To urge or exhort (someone to do something):"Writers like Emerson and Thoreau .. admonished us to develop ourselves according to nature"(E.D. Hirsch). To remind (someone) of something forgotten or disregarded, as an obligation or a responsibility.
- To reprove gently but earnestly:"Lincoln pursued his interests in defiance of established norms. Far from being praised, he was consistently admonished"(Joshua Wolf Shenk).