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Monition vs Munition - What's the difference?

monition | munition |

As nouns the difference between monition and munition

is that monition is a caution or warning while munition is ammunition, munition.

monition

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A caution or warning.
  • A legal notification of something.
  • A sign of impending danger; an omen.
  • *1839 , (Edgar Allan Poe), ‘William Wilson’:
  • *:I recognise the first ambiguous monitions of the destiny which afterwards so fully overshadowed me.

    • Synonyms

    * (caution or warning) caution, exhortation, warning

    Related terms

    * admonish * admonition

    munition

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (usually plural) Armament, weaponry.
  • * 1918 , Upton Sinclair, The Profits of Religion: An Essay in Economic Interpretation Book 7.:
    • Just as we can say that an English girl who leaves the narrow circle of her old life, and goes into a munition factory and joins a union and takes part in its debates, will never after be a docile home-slave; so we can say that the clergyman who helps in Y. M. C. A. work in France, or in Red Cross organization in America, will be less the bigot and formalist forever after.
  • (military, NATO) Bombs, rockets, missiles.
  • (rare, obsolete) A tower or fortification.
  • * 1610 , Douay-Rheims Bible, Habacuc 2:1
    • I wil stand vpon my watch, and fixe my steppe vpon the munition : and I wil behold, to see what may be sayd to me, and what I may answer to him that rebuketh me.