different between admonition vs blame

English

Etymology

From Middle English amonicioun, from Old French amonicion, from Latin admonitio, stem of admonere. The -d- was restored in English in the 17th century.

Noun

admonition (plural admonitions)

1. Gentle or friendly reproof; counseling against fault or oversight; warning.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:advice

Related terms

• admonish

Translations

Anagrams

• domination

French

Pronunciation

Noun

admonition f (plural admonitions)

1. an admonition, a warning

Further reading

• “admonition” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Swedish

Noun

admonition c

1. an admonition, a warning

Declension

Synonyms

• varning

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ble?m/
• Rhymes: -e?m

Etymology 1

From Middle English blame, borrowed from Old French blame, blasme, produced from the verb blasmer, which in turn is derived from Vulgar Latin *blast?m?re, present active infinitive of *blast?m?, from Ecclesiastical Latin, Late Latin blasph?m?, ultimately from Ancient Greek ????????? (blasph?mé?). Replaced common use of native wite (“blame, guilt, wrongdoing, offense, fine, punishment”) (from Middle English w?tan, from Middle English w?te). Doublet of blaspheme.

Noun

blame (uncountable)

1. Censure.

   Blame came from all directions.

2. Culpability for something negative or undesirable.

   The blame for starting the fire lies with the arsonist.

3. Responsibility for something meriting censure.

   They accepted the blame, but it was an accident.

4. (computing) A source control feature that can show which user was responsible for a particular portion of the source code.

Derived terms

• blame game
• put the blame on

Translations

See also

• fault

Etymology 2

From Middle English blamen, borrowed from Old French blasmer, from Ecclesiastical Latin blasph?m? (“to reproach, to revile”), from Ancient Greek ????????? (blasph?mé?). Compare blaspheme, a doublet. Overtook common use from the native wite (“to blame, accuse, reproach, suspect”) (from Middle English w?ten, from Old English w?tan).

Verb

blame (third-person singular simple present blames, present participle blaming, simple past and past participle blamed)

1. To censure (someone or something); to criticize.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.ii:

     though my loue be not so lewdly bent, / As those ye blame, yet may it nought appease / My raging smart [...].

   • 1919, Saki, ‘The Oversight’, The Toys of Peace:

     That was the year that Sir Richard was writing his volume on Domestic Life in Tartary. The critics all blamed it for a lack of concentration.

   • 2006, Clive James, North Face of Soho, Picador 2007, p. 106:

     I covered the serious programmes too, and indeed, right from the start, I spent more time praising than blaming.

2. (obsolete) To bring into disrepute.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.viii:

     For knighthoods loue, do not so foule a deed, / Ne blame your honour with so shamefull vaunt / Of vile reuenge.

3. (transitive, usually followed by "for") To assert or consider that someone is the cause of something negative; to place blame, to attribute responsibility (for something negative or for doing something negative).

   The arsonist was blamed for the fire.

Synonyms

• (censure; criticize): reproach, shend, take to task, upbraid
• (consider that someone is the cause of something negative): hold to account

Derived terms

• blamer, be to blame

Translations

Anagrams

• Amble, Embla, Lambe, Mabel, Mable, Melba, amble, belam, melba

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French blasme, a deverbal noun from blasmer (“to criticise”).

Alternative forms

• blam (rare)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bla?m(?)/

Noun

blame (uncountable)

1. criticism, condemnation
2. accusation (especially legal)
3. blame, culpability
4. offence, misdeed
5. imperfection, downside
6. disrepute, dishonour
7. blasphemy, irreverence

Descendants

• English: blame
• Scots: blame

References

• “bl?me, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

Verb

blame

1. Alternative form of blamen

Walloon

Noun

blame f (plural blames)

1. flame

   Synonym: flame