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  2. Sep 15, 2022 · "remind, urge, exhort, warn, give warning," from Old French amonester "urge, encourage,… See origin and meaning of admonish.

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  3. The earliest known use of the verb admonish is in the Middle English period (1150—1500). OED's earliest evidence for admonish is from before 1325, in Statutes of the Realm.

  4. Jan 14, 2024 · This Latin root word made its way into English through the Old French word “amonester” in the 1200s. By the mid-1400s it had taken on the specific religious meaning of gently reproving or urging someone to fulfill their obligations.

  5. Jul 7, 2011 · Warn comes to us from our Anglo-Saxon roots, while Admonish comes to us from our Latin ones. Therefore, the words, over time, took on somewhat varying meanings. Admonish, most likely due to its Latin heritage not only sounds more sophisticated, but is seen as being a more direct or strong way to warn someone.

  6. The word "admonish" originated in Latin, where it was used in the legal and religious contexts to refer to the act of warning or reminding someone of their duties. It was commonly used in official documents and legal proceedings, as well as in religious texts to convey the message of God or other divine beings.

  7. Admonish implies the giving of advice or a warning in order to rectify or avoid something: "A gallows erected on an eminence admonished the offenders of the fate that awaited them" (William Hickling Prescott).

  8. Admonish was borrowed in the 14th century (via Anglo-French amonester) from Vulgar Latin admonestāre, which itself is probably a derivative of admonestus, the past participle of the Latin verb admonēre, meaning "to warn."

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