monition

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The tribunal ordered a "monition", a formal warning or caution, for all the charges.

From BBC

Others are dismissive, rolling their eyes at the prospect of having to contemplate still another category of dire monition.

From New York Times

Their submission not being forthcoming, he proceeded to Venice, and addressed to the Doge Gradenigo a monition ordering him, under pain of excommunication, to swear to obey all the papal constitutions on heresy.

From Project Gutenberg

Sometimes monitions of this kind formed part of the regular proceedings of the autos de f�.

From Project Gutenberg

And have we not felt our utter powerlessness, whether by public preaching or by private monition, to find a way to those case-hardened hearts?

From Project Gutenberg