What's the difference between admonitor and admonitory?
Admonitor
Definition:
(n.) Admonisher; monitor.
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Admonitory
Definition:
(a.) That conveys admonition; warning or reproving; as, an admonitory glance.
Example Sentences:
(1) Or Johnson, E – said, with accompanying admonitory finger-wagging and in a schoolmasterly tone by tweeters, emailers, etc up until that last, goal-scoring moment.
(2) While God's primordial warning that He will require a reckoning for the blood shed by suicide has lost nothing of its admonitory and deterrent purpose, Jewish law, as it developed in the course of time, in actual practice takes cognizance only of two kinds of suicide: One that is permissible, by reason of its motivation, and that may in given situations even be highly laudable; and one that is the outcome or symptom of mental disturbances or otherwise legally excusable.
(3) There is something admonitory about this lack of awareness – HIV infection rates are going up among young people.
(4) A Clockwork Orange was Kubrick's fourth production since settling in England in 1960 and it completed a trilogy of admonitory science-fiction movies concerning the fate of the individual in a dehumanised near-future that began with Dr Strangelove and 2001: A Space Odyssey.
(5) While Townsend has succumbed to hamstring trouble, a thoroughly frustrated Shelvey devoted the Bournemouth game to wagging admonitory fingers at underachieving team-mates signed by Graham Carr.
(6) Much as the government might, on this occasion, have relished the idea of this admonitory process being broadcast more widely, Britain still thankfully doesn't do show trials.