Reprimanded vs Admonished - What's the difference?
reprimanded | admonished |
(reprimand)
A severe, formal or official reproof; reprehension, rebuke, private or public.
* Macaulay
To reprove in a formal or official way.
* 1983 . Rosen, Stanley. Plato’s Sophist: The Drama of Original & Image. South Bend, Indiana, USA: St. Augustine’s Press. p. 62.
(admonish)
To warn or notify of a fault; to reprove gently or kindly, but seriously; to exhort.
To counsel against wrong practices; to caution or advise; to warn against danger or an offense; — followed by of, against, or a subordinate clause.
To instruct or direct; to inform; to notify.
As verbs the difference between reprimanded and admonished
is that reprimanded is (reprimand) while admonished is (admonish).reprimanded
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Verb
(head)reprimand
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Noun
(en noun)- Goldsmith gave his landlady a sharp reprimand for her treatment of him.
Verb
(en verb)- He is struck by Antinous, who is in turn reprimanded by one of the “proud young men” courting Penelope: