Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

commonition

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: com-mo-ni-tion
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

advice, warning, or instruction.

Archaic

Example Sentences

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

Etymology

From Latin commonitio. See monition.

Usage

Archaic

Inflected Forms

commonitions (plural)

Questions

What does commonition mean?: advice, warning, or instruction.
Where does commonition come from?: From Latin commonitio. See monition.

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