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Admonition vs Deterrent - What's the difference?

admonition | deterrent | Related terms |

Admonition is a related term of deterrent.


As a noun admonition

is gentle or friendly reproof; counseling against fault or oversight; warning.

As a verb deterrent 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

    * ----

    deterrent

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Serving to deter, preventing something from happening

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something that deters.

    • Derived terms

    * nuclear deterrent