Admonish

Model Sentence:

"You are docile today. Did your sister admonish you?" (Black)

Sentences in the Real World:

• "Speaking at the COP26 summit, which notable figure admonished former President Donald Trump for 'four years of active hostility towards climate science?'”

• "AND we urge you, brothers, admonish the idle, encourage the faint-hearted, help the weak, be patient with them all."

• "I ask the court to strongly admonish him and the next time it happens, I will be asking for a mistrial with prejudice."

Other Known Forms:

• admonition

• admonitor

Etymology:

Language Origin:

Latin

Older Meaning:

admonēre, to warn

Story:

The meaning when first in use probably was to warn originally due to the fact that it came when cultures were ending and people were finding new land, and new beginnings.

Observations:

To warn intends a negative connotation at first, and impends for fear, of the unknown. But, it probably adapted to, to advise, due to what they first feared became less frightful. So then that negative connotation became positive, which is to advise.