Admonition vs Lecture - What's the difference?
admonition | lecture |
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.}}
(senseid) A spoken lesson or exposition, usually delivered to a group.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1
, passage=The stories did not seem to me to touch life. […] They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture , with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.}}
A berating or scolding.
(obsolete) The act of reading.
(senseid)(ambitransitive) To teach (somebody) by giving a speech on a given topic.
To preach, to berate, to scold.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Gary Younge)
, volume=188, issue=26, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
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As nouns the difference between admonition and lecture
is that admonition is gentle or friendly reproof; counseling against fault or oversight; warning while lecture is (senseid) a spoken lesson or exposition, usually delivered to a group.As a verb lecture is
(senseid)(ambitransitive) to teach (somebody) by giving a speech on a given topic.admonition
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(lectur)Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution, passage=The dispatches […] also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies. Having lectured the Arab world about democracy for years, its collusion in suppressing freedom was undeniable as protesters were met by weaponry and tear gas made in the west, employed by a military trained by westerners.}}
