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1. A firm rebuke
   - admonition, admonishment
    
2. Cautionary advice about something imminent (especially imminent danger or other unpleasantness)
   - admonition, warning, word of advice
    
3. A summons issued after the filing of a libel or claim directing all parties concerned to show cause why the judgment asked for should not be granted
   - process of monition

Derived forms: monitions

See also: monish

Type of: advice, process, rebuke, reprehension, reprimand, reproof, reproval, summons

Encyclopedia: Monition