commonitionとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

commonition ‎(複数形 commonitions)

1. advice; warning; instruction.
   • 17th C., John Donne, Sermon XC. Preached at the Churching of the Countess of Bridgewater^[1]:

     as they appertain to all succeeding ages, and to us, so they are a commonition, an alarm, to raise us from the sleep, and death of sin

   • 2006, Paul Vela, Sealed With a Kiss^[2]:

     Daryll Smoot's sermonizing didn't begin and end with nightly commonitions