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Admonition vs Chiding - What's the difference?

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Admonition is a related term of chiding.


As nouns the difference between admonition and chiding

is that admonition is gentle or friendly reproof; counseling against fault or oversight; warning while chiding is a scolding.

As a verb chiding is

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admonition

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.}}

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Related terms

    * admonish

    Anagrams

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    chiding

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A scolding.