Commonition

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    advice, warning, or instruction. archaic

    "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"

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"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"

Etymology

From Latin commonitio. See monition.

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