Admonition vs Reprove - What's the difference?
admonition | reprove |
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.}}
to express disapproval.
to criticise, rebuke or reprimand (someone), usually in a gentle and kind tone.
* 1611 , Bible , Authorized (King James) Version, Proverbs IX.8:
to prevent, avoid, deny or suppress (a feeling, behaviour, action etc.).
* 1982 , (Lawrence Durrell), Constance'', Faber & Faber 2004 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 856:
As a noun admonition
is gentle or friendly reproof; counseling against fault or oversight; warning.As a verb reprove is
to express disapproval.admonition
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(reprov)- Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.
- She ached to be with Affad again – and to reprove the feeling she frowned and bit her lip.