admonitive

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admonitive

(ədˈmɒnɪtɪv)

adj

relating to admonition; admonitory

References in periodicals archive ?

The full set of speaker-oriented modality consists of imperative, prohibitive, optative, hortative, admonitive, and permissive.

Can in Shakespeare and Marlowe

The IMPERATIVE type is conventionally associated with orders; the HORTATIVE type with exhortations; the ADMONITIVE type with warnings; and the SUPPLICATIVE type with requests for permission.

Basic illocutions in the native languages of Brazil

Altogether, the manuscript preserves Audelay's name eighteen times, and many of these namings occur because the chaplain-poet himself adopts a first-person admonitive mode by which to assert that the verses are his 'making'.