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Particularly: “mid-15c., premunicion, premunition, "preliminary warning, previous notification or admonishment," from Anglo-French premunition (late 14c.), Old French premonicion, from Medieval Latin praemonitionem (nominative praemonitio) "a forewarning," noun of action from past-participle stem of Latin praemonere "forewarn,"”

Verb

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premonish (third-person singular simple present premonishes, present participle premonishing, simple past and past participle premonished)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To warn of something in advance.
    • 1901, Winona Branch Sawyer, Frances Wood Shimer, 1826-1901, page 17:
      While other schools of a similar nature were petitioning for endowments, employing agents to solicit funds, and, failing to receive, were obliged to close their doors, she, [] premonished on every side with assurances of failure, not only established a good school, but maintained it, and made it a remunerative enterprise and a recognized force in educational circles.
    • 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., page 56:
      In Australia and Samoa the kangaroo, the crow and the owl premonish their fellow clansmen of events to come.
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