[f. ADMONISH + -ING1.] The action of exhorting, cautioning or authoritatively counselling, or of notifying; admonition. (Now mostly gerundial.)
c. 1374. Chaucer, Boethius (1868), 149. Certys ryȝtful is þin amonestyng and ful digne by auctorite.
1375. Barbour, Bruce, IV. 533. We haf thre thingis, That makis vs amonestyngis For to be vorthy.
1570. Ascham, Scholem. (Arb.), 28. Cherefull admonishinge, and heedefull amendinge of faultes.
a. 1688. Bunyan, Mr. Badman (1767), I. 738. I cannot conceive since their sin was so conspicuous that my admonishing the world thereof should turn to their detriment.
Mod. Tired of admonishing them in vain.
