ext_34538 ([identity profile] simplyn2deep.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] 1_million_words2025-05-23 08:46 am

Word of the Day 05/23/25 Premonish

Premonish (verb)
premonish [ pri-mon-ish ]


verb (used with or without object)
1. to warn beforehand.

Other Word Forms
un pre·mon ished adjective

Related Words
augur, bespeak, foretell, predict, presage

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Origin: First recorded in 1520–30; pre- + (ad)monish

Example Sentences
Premonish, prē-mon′ish, v.t. to admonish or warn beforehand.—n.
From Project Gutenberg

Not to dally longer with the sympathies of our readers, we think it right to premonish them that we are composing an epicedium upon no less distinguished a personage than the Lottery, whose last breath, after many penultimate puffs, has been sobbed forth by sorrowing contractors, as if the world itself were about to be converted into a blank.
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Did it premonish the passing away of old things, and herald the birth of a new order and a new social state? or did the trouble spring from innate madness in the "younger strengths" which were trying to overthrow the world's kingdoms?
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I premonish you of that: in the court, boy, lacquey, or sirrah.
From Project Gutenberg

Thou stop'st Saint Peter in the midst of sin; Stay me, by crowing, ere I do begin; Better it is, premonish'd, for to shun A sin, than fall to weeping when 'tis done.
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