Heed vs Admonition - What's the difference?
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Careful attention.
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
To mind; to regard with care; to take notice of; to attend to; to observe.
* Dryden
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(archaic) To pay attention, care.
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.}}
As nouns the difference between heed and admonition
is that heed is careful attention while admonition is gentle or friendly reproof; counseling against fault or oversight; warning.As a verb heed
is to mind; to regard with care; to take notice of; to attend to; to observe.heed
English
Noun
(-)- Then for a few minutes I did not pay much heed to what was said, being terribly straitened for room, and cramped with pain from lying so long in one place.
Usage notes
* Often used with give, pay or take.Synonyms
* (careful attention) attention, notice, observation, regardVerb
(en verb)- With pleasure Argus the musician heeds .
Life in a Russian Prison," New York Times (retrieved 24 September 2013):
- Tolokonnikova not only tried to adjust to life in the penal colony but she even tried to heed the criticism levied at her by colony representatives during a parole hearing.