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Definition of Warning
Warning

of Warn

Giving previous notice; cautioning; admonishing; as, a warning voice.

Previous notice.

Caution against danger, or against faults or evil practices which incur danger; admonition; monition.

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Warning Quotations

I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and to the ruin of our children. I give you this warning that you may prepare your mind for your fate.
John Adams

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.
George Bernard Shaw

I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.
Marshall McLuhan

Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.
Marshall McLuhan

The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
Felix Adler

History is a vast early warning system.
Norman Cousins

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
James Russell Lowell

Absolutely, it's a really weird stage because at the minute, I can walk down the street and be unrecognised, lead a normal life, but my label and everybody is warning me that will be changing and I'm in for a rollercoaster ride.
James Blunt

I didn't even apply. There was no warning.
Max Roach

My one purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others.
Jamie Zawinski

Warning Translations

warning in Afrikaans is waarskuwing
warning in Danish is advarsel
warning in Dutch is waarschuwing, tip
warning in French is avertissant, rappel, notification
warning in German is Mahnung, Warnung, Warnung
warning in Italian is ammonizione
warning in Latin is monitio, admonitio
warning in Portuguese is aviso
warning in Spanish is aviso


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