admonitory

Adjective
Synonyms: cautionaryexemplarymonitorywarning(a)admonishingreproachfulreproving

WordNet 3.0

Adjective (2)

  1. serving to warn“shook a monitory finger at him”“an exemplary jail sentence”Synonyms: cautionaryexemplarymonitorywarning(a)
  2. expressing reproof or reproach especially as a correctiveSynonyms: admonishingreproachfulreproving
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Admonitory \Ad*mon"i*to*ry\, a. [LL. admonitorius.] That conveys admonition; warning or reproving; as, an admonitory glance. -- Ad*mon"i*to*ri*ly,, adv. [1913 Webster]
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