Admonition vs Caution - What's the difference?
admonition | caution | Related terms |
Gentle or friendly reproof; counseling against fault or oversight; warning.
* {{quote-book, title=, author=Plato, translator=Benjamin Jowett, year=1892
, passage=But modesty cannot be implanted by admonition only—the elders must set the example.}}
Precept or warning against evil or danger of any kind; exhortation to wariness; advice; injunction.
* Shakespeare
A careful attention to the probable effects of an act, in order that failure or harm may be avoided; prudence in regard to danger; provident care; wariness.
Security; guaranty; bail.
* Clarendon
One who gives rise to attention or astonishment.
A formal warning given as an alternative to prosecution in minor cases.
Admonition is a related term of caution.
As nouns the difference between admonition and caution
is that admonition is gentle or friendly reproof; counseling against fault or oversight; warning while caution is precept or warning against evil or danger of any kind; exhortation to wariness; advice; injunction.As a verb caution is
to warn; to alert, advise that caution is warranted.admonition
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* ----caution
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(en noun)- In way of caution I must tell you.
- The Parliament would yet give his majesty sufficient caution that the war should be prosecuted.
- Oh, that boy, he's a caution ! He does make me laugh.